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foreclose

[fawr-klohz, fohr-] / fɔrˈkloʊz, foʊr- /
VERB
exclude
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STRONG


VERB
take away the right to redeem a mortgage
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A buyer could foreclose on the property and potentially change its use to advanced manufacturing such as aerospace or defense, which is in high demand in Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

Not only does it create a lien against your home, but your relative could potentially foreclose on the property.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

Friday's decision "is solely to foreclose the death penalty as an available punishment to be considered by the jury," Judge Margaret Garnett wrote in her opinion.

From Barron's Jan. 30, 2026

This does not, of course, foreclose another question: Does the book add anything of additional value—defining the term, loosely, to include perspective and narrative fluency?

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

“Certain items supposedly from the estate of President and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln have surfaced in a house the bank is forced to foreclose on. Do you grasp what this could mean, Mrs. Dowdel?”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

If the U.S. legally forecloses this question while other nations leave it open, we risk being strategically blindsided.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 25, 2025

"There is an adequate state ground for the prosecution and that forecloses Supreme Court jurisdiction on that issue," Peck said.

From Salon Jun. 3, 2024

Tyndall’s death forecloses a criminal trial set for next year.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 5, 2023

“This Court’s longstanding precedent forecloses applicants’ attempt to have the courts look behind the request’s stated legislative purpose to the subjective motives of individual legislators,” she wrote.

From Washington Post Nov. 22, 2022

“The bank forecloses on people’s farms and throws them off their land, and they don’t even appreciate it.”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

Many are sitting on mountains of debt and might have been foreclosed on by now, but they say banks don’t want their struggling properties either.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

That case, Gorsuch reasoned, was on point here: It foreclosed Flowers’ rule that workers needed to cross state lines or interact with vehicles traveling across borders to engage in interstate commerce.

From Slate Jun. 3, 2026

Colony Ridge foreclosed on the property three years later, even though Acevedo said she was making payments.

From Salon Apr. 12, 2026

Virginia does not have a “right of redemption,” so homeowners are generally not permitted to repurchase the foreclosed property.

From MarketWatch Mar. 7, 2026

But those hypothetical outcomes were foreclosed by mammal extinctions thousands of years earlier.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The HOA is also foreclosing on some units owned by investors who stopped paying after their tenants didn’t pay rent, Amilowski said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

A-CAP was Glutality’s primary lender and became its owner after foreclosing on the venture’s assets in the months before Glutality’s October 2025 petition for Chapter 11 reorganization, court records show.

From Barron's Mar. 4, 2026

By foreclosing that tool, the court doesn’t just alter the shape of judicial relief.

From Slate Jun. 27, 2025

Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, a fellow New York Republican who reviles Santos, introduced a bill this year aimed at foreclosing just that possibility.

From Seattle Times Dec. 2, 2023

Well, I figured it this way, that the franchise was worth the price I had to pay for the whole thing, and if I had the stock control I'd save the fuss of foreclosing.

From The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson



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