foreclose
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A buyer could foreclose on the property and potentially change its use to advanced manufacturing such as aerospace or defense, which is in high demand in Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Not only does it create a lien against your home, but your relative could potentially foreclose on the property.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Friday's decision "is solely to foreclose the death penalty as an available punishment to be considered by the jury," Judge Margaret Garnett wrote in her opinion.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 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
“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
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If the U.S. legally forecloses this question while other nations leave it open, we risk being strategically blindsided.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
"There is an adequate state ground for the prosecution and that forecloses Supreme Court jurisdiction on that issue," Peck said.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2024
Tyndall’s death forecloses a criminal trial set for next year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
“This Court’s longstanding precedent forecloses applicants’ attempt to have the courts look behind the request’s stated legislative purpose to the subjective motives of individual legislators,” she wrote.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022
“The bank forecloses on people’s farms and throws them off their land, and they don’t even appreciate it.”
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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Many are sitting on mountains of debt and might have been foreclosed on by now, but they say banks don’t want their struggling properties either.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
That case, Gorsuch reasoned, was on point here: It foreclosed Flowers’ rule that workers needed to cross state lines or interact with vehicles traveling across borders to engage in interstate commerce.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
Colony Ridge foreclosed on the property three years later, even though Acevedo said she was making payments.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026
Virginia does not have a “right of redemption,” so homeowners are generally not permitted to repurchase the foreclosed property.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 7, 2026
But those hypothetical outcomes were foreclosed by mammal extinctions thousands of years earlier.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The HOA is also foreclosing on some units owned by investors who stopped paying after their tenants didn’t pay rent, Amilowski said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
A-CAP was Glutality’s primary lender and became its owner after foreclosing on the venture’s assets in the months before Glutality’s October 2025 petition for Chapter 11 reorganization, court records show.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
By foreclosing that tool, the court doesn’t just alter the shape of judicial relief.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2025
Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, a fellow New York Republican who reviles Santos, introduced a bill this year aimed at foreclosing just that possibility.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2023
Well, I figured it this way, that the franchise was worth the price I had to pay for the whole thing, and if I had the stock control I'd save the fuss of foreclosing.
From The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson
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