bankrupt
Example Sentences
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In its defense, Cox argued that internet service providers could be bankrupted by huge lawsuits for copyright infringement, which they said they did not cause and could not prevent.
From Los Angeles Times
Donovan, 44, played 15 seasons with the Galaxy and San José Earthquakes, arguably saving MLS by returning from an unsuccessful stint in Germany at a time when the league was in danger of going bankrupt.
From Los Angeles Times
Another mall owner, General Growth Properties, bought Rouse in a $12.6 billion acquisition financed almost entirely by debt and later went bankrupt.
Complications arose when my employer went bankrupt and was acquired by a new company.
From MarketWatch
Another Nobel laureate, William Faulkner, set his novels in the post-Civil War South, but Depression-era readers could identify with the bankrupt economy, the impoverishment of farmers and the political disruption, Conn says.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
