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bankrupt

adjective as in unable to pay debts

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“We went from the bankrupt Dodgers to getting into the playoffs every year,” Jansen said.

It says a lot about these people that they would favor a morally bankrupt criminal, who is intent on destroying the Constitution, rather than a Democrat.

From Salon

The medical bills nearly bankrupted her family, so her older sister moved to Australia to support them.

From BBC

The Liberal Democrat authority's chief executive will be asked to chair a recovery board to try and find urgent savings, if the council is to avoid effectively declaring itself bankrupt.

From BBC

“The thing that will bankrupt this country more than any other policy is flooding the country with illegal immigration and then giving those migrants generous benefits,” Vance wrote in a tweet earlier this summer.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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