become insolvent
Example Sentences
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However, as oil production declines and fossil fuel companies increasingly become insolvent, California regulators worry taxpayers may have to assume the costs to plug these wells.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
The CCN had previously warned that without an extension, 18 county and unitary councils would become "insolvent overnight".
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025
The program's funding is already in crisis and expected to become insolvent as early as 2033.
From Salon • Oct. 21, 2024
Ms. Green, of Lake Stevens, Wash., had claimed her benefit in 2015 after people in the plan were alerted that it might become insolvent.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024
Indeed, she was so proud of the acquaintance, that she had awakened some bitterness of spirit in the Yard by magnifying to an enormous amount the sum for which Miss Dorrit's father had become insolvent.
From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles
