insolvency
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As the lingerie company where they had worked for decades plunged into financial insolvency, the seamstresses of La Perla took a stand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Double-digit raises have been promised to union workers by a school system that for months has proclaimed that it is in dire financial straits, trapped in deficit spending and facing potential insolvency in four years.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
Michael Lynch, partner at city law firm DMH Stallard and specialist in business restructuring and insolvency, says administrators will be looking at what costs can be dealt with.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
When those institutions came close to insolvency, turmoil quickly spread throughout the broader financial system.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026
“Impossible!—when I told you how she, on the contrary, deserted me: the idea of my insolvency cooled, or rather extinguished, her flame in a moment.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing insolvency
Jane Eyre
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The Princess Bride
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Vocabulary from the Twelfth Republican Debate, March 10, 2016
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