collection agency
Example Sentences
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While buy-now-pay-later activity doesn’t typically show up on your credit report, that can change if the balance is neglected and sent to a collection agency.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026
In March 2024, a New York lawyer representing a collection agency contacted one family who worked with SEAM, saying that Side owed a high-interest lender $69,500 and was seeking to recover it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025
When hospitals can’t collect on unpaid bills, they will sometimes bundle the debt and sell it at a steep discount to a collection agency.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2023
The ministry never sent him money, the bills were referred to a collection agency, and Chalman's credit score dropped from 750 to 600.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2023
Kathy called it that, their spirited back-and-forth about everything from what the kids ate for dinner to whether they should enlist a collection agency to help with a particular client.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
