go bust

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It took exactly one game of March Madness for the world’s most powerful AI models to understand the distinctly human feeling of watching their brackets go bust.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

“And when software companies go bust, they usually have few assets to sell to repay loans,” he cautioned.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

The trick for executives at privately held JE Dunn and elsewhere is how to manage the risk that the boom could go bust.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

"One third of councils are telling us that if nothing changes in terms of how they're funded, they are going to go bust within five years," he said.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2025

If they cannot reinvent themselves, they go bust.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari