foreclose

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Pinnacle filed for bankruptcy last year after Flagstar moved to foreclose on the portfolio.

From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026

This does not, of course, foreclose another question: Does the book add anything of additional value—defining the term, loosely, to include perspective and narrative fluency?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

"To hold otherwise would be to completely foreclose the further development of music in that genre or for that purpose."

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2025

Dualistic dismissals of “Ironic” foreclose its vivacious, nonbinary complexity.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024

“Certain items supposedly from the estate of President and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln have surfaced in a house the bank is forced to foreclose on. Do you grasp what this could mean, Mrs. Dowdel?”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck