debt
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“Because we are still talking a bout a drop in the bucket in terms of Treasury debt out there,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
The city’s pension and debt payments already swallow roughly 40% of its net operating budget.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
“We have an eternal debt to them that has never been paid. Sí se puede.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Many university graduates also face mounting student debt.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
It must be the sleep debt I owe my body—the accumulated hours of missed rest over the past four days.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
The average graduate in England leaves university with debts of more than £47,500.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
It bankrupted the director, and he abandoned Justin's mother Caroline, leaving her with all his debts.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
A court found Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan, a Harvard donor, responsible for large-scale fraud to hide debts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
And that’s money the billionaire can apply to pay down the debts of two troubled Delaware life insurers he owns that are under federal scrutiny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Many other Monticello people were later sold to pay down Jefferson’s debts.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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