bankruptcy
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The first Chinese automaker to crack the U.K. market was SAIC, using the British brand MG that it bought out of bankruptcy in the 2000s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Threatened with bankruptcy, he was forced to quit his parliamentary seat.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The Minnesota mine project filed for bankruptcy a decade ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Merit Street Media, the television network he launched around MeritTV, later filed for bankruptcy protection.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Hamilton had been born on the West Indian island of Nevis, the illegitimate son of a down-on-her-luck beauty of French extraction and a hard-drinking Scottish merchant with a flair for bankruptcy.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
This economic downturn pushed up the number of bankruptcies dramatically.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
The 2005 changes caused the number of personal bankruptcies to plunge.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Founded in 1931 as a Jewish law firm outside the white-shoe elite, Weil built its reputation handling bankruptcies for Lehman Brothers, General Motors and Enron.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The state is reluctant to fill the void left by federal funding after a series of bankruptcies and cancellations left only one truck maker and one bus maker selling hydrogen vehicles in North America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The various bonds you make from those loans will go bad not as the loans go bad but months later, after a lot of tedious foreclosures and bankruptcies and forced sales.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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