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liquidate

[lik-wi-deyt] / ˈlɪk wɪˌdeɪt /




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He alleged his father was being taken advantage of by an executive of his family office and his wife Kelli and that they had threatened to liquidate the assets.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

CEO Jason Hollar leads a wave of insider selling that saw top executives liquidate nearly $60 million worth of company stock.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

Financial market disclosures made by Situational Awareness, the once-soaring hedge fund that had to liquidate its portfolio of stocks, moved a stock on Wednesday.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

Repo rates would then surge, hedge funds could liquidate Treasury positions en masse, and yields would gyrate.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

“It's from that summer house he had. The one his father gave him that we never went to. He has to liquidate it and I’m getting the money!”

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

If Spirit liquidates, other airlines, including Frontier, JetBlue, and United, are expected to backfill its markets and acquire assets.

From Barron's May 1, 2026

If the loan-to-value ratio exceeds 80%, Ledn automatically liquidates the bitcoin to pay off the loans, giving any leftover proceeds back to the borrower.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 10, 2026

If the company liquidates, all shareholders — including those who bought in at very high prices — would be paid about $10 a share.

From Washington Post Sep. 6, 2022

Rah8 liquidates to a winning endgame in which the outside passed a-pawn will spell Black’s doom.

From Washington Times Mar. 1, 2022

"C" deposits "B's" check with The Bank and hereby liquidates his $10,000 indebtedness to The Bank.

From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson

“Many of them will be using margin and will get liquidated once the bubble pops, which seems to be what happened in South Korea.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 30, 2026

The hedge fund liquidated most of its public equities portfolio to repay lenders.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Last fall, a federal bankruptcy judge ordered the network liquidated, finding evidence that McGraw deleted text messages to conceal plans favoring certain creditors over others.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Berkshire liquidated most of the roughly 15 positions during the first quarter that were managed by Todd Combs—an investment manager who decamped for JPMorgan Chase—Buffett told The Wall Street Journal in May.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

“I liquidated my stock and turned in my resignation.”

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

He previously told MarketWatch that some insiders feel that by liquidating their stakes, they would be “giving up on the mission and vision” of SpaceX.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

Watch how RealToken went from attracting thousands of global investors to liquidating its $140 million portfolio.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

My relatives made great investment choices and I would like to keep the shares rather than liquidating them.

From MarketWatch May 21, 2026

While the automakers aren’t currently liquidating, they are operating on a margin-over-volume strategy that has pushed the average transaction price of a new car to a record $50,000.

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 2026

Although he was convinced at that time of the urgency of liquidating the Conservative regime, the plot horrified him.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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