insolvency
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Supporters say workers’ compensation changes, including restricted eligibility for some benefits, have rescued the systems from their insolvency crisis of the 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Department-store credit accounts and the disappearance of legal restrictions on interest rates paved the way for the late-20th-century explosion of the credit-card business and corresponding debt and insolvency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
However, following financial collapse in 2019, British Steel was taken over by the government's insolvency service.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The funding had been on the table for a sharp reduction as one of many proposed cuts to avoid insolvency in two to three years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
“Impossible!—when I told you how she, on the contrary, deserted me: the idea of my insolvency cooled, or rather extinguished, her flame in a moment.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
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Vocabulary from the Twelfth Republican Debate, March 10, 2016
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