out of business
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"Their goal was to put themselves out of business, to be able to get to the end of the year and say, 'You don't need me anymore,'" Yee said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
He added they gave their "decent, hardworking" counterparts a bad name and hoped to put "the cowboys out of business".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Becky Davis, who told the council that she and her husband owned a gun store in Goleta long before the city incorporated in 2002, said: “You zoned me out of business, literally.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Rural America is being hit hard by everything. Farmers are going out of business everyday," she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The grocer family around the corner who had gone out of business, for example.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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