repossession

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They are also “more likely to have their account assigned to repossession within two years.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

More borrowers have been defaulting on their loan payments, which typically results in a repossession.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

In Southern California, repossession of a car whose owner is behind on loan payments is not uncommon.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026

They included a couple now £13,000 in arrears on a home they bought, and a woman who faced the repossession of a house she left following a marriage breakdown 15 years earlier.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025

For a time I did not reflect that to hold it thus in my hand was not sufficient to entitle me to repossession.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden