go bankrupt
Example Sentences
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Some 500,000 Americans go bankrupt every year and, depending on what study you read, anywhere from 40% to 60% or more of those cases are due to medical debt.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
The most memorable was Pets.com, which would quickly go public and then go bankrupt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Despite being so good at talking people out of their money, he still managed to go bankrupt multiple times.
From Salon • Dec. 10, 2025
Industry analysts expressed concerns that if companies started to go bankrupt, a trickle could soon become a flood – potentially causing permanent damage to the country's advanced engineering industry.
From BBC • Oct. 5, 2025
Like Bell Telephone was going to go bankrupt because of one phone call from Minneapolis to Long Island in the middle of the night.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
