How to Use go bankrupt in a Sentence

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  • Without the tax, the city is projected to go bankrupt by 2024, even with drastic cuts.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • But she was sued by her previous manager and had to go to court (and go bankrupt) to be free of him.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • Planes still fly in and out of Chicago’s other two airports, the world didn’t end and Chicago did not go bankrupt.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Most of the time, investors do not see monetary recovery and can go bankrupt.
    — Fox News, 18 Dec. 2021
  • In the boom-and-bust world of oil and gas drilling, though, operators frequently go bankrupt, leaving wells orphaned and unplugged, and taxpayers on the hook.
    — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • Coinbase has warned that, were the crypto exchange to go bankrupt, its users could lose all their cryptocurrencies that are stored in Coinbase accounts.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 11 May 2022
  • Brooks Brothers is the latest iconic retailer to go bankrupt.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 8 July 2020
  • But some jobs will become obsolete, and some companies will go bankrupt.
    — Jack Ewing Maddie McGarvey, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • And should the insurer go bankrupt, the plan won’t be backed by the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
  • If those collapse, the entire country will go bankrupt—excluding the oligarchs with gracious homes in London.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The short answer is no, but its more complicated than that. Legally speaking though, the city cannot technically go bankrupt at this point.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
  • Imagine if Microsoft were to go bankrupt and Windows were to disappear from the marketplace.
    — Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2022
  • When companies go bankrupt, their gift cards can become worthless.
    — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 2 Jan. 2021
  • These wells are left behind — orphaned to the state — after their owners, often oil and gas companies, go bankrupt or when the wells fall into disrepair.
    — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 29 June 2021
  • The law also requires coal mining companies to secure bonds to cover the costs of reclamation should the companies go bankrupt.
    — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Many owners of crabbing vessels may go bankrupt without help, and once lost, the industry know-how and supply chain could be difficult to resurrect.
    — David Faris, The Week, 20 Oct. 2022
  • One student argued that every country would go bankrupt if required to pay reparations for past misdeeds.
    — Patrick Thomas, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • Dozens of the startups that have been funded are expected to fail, go bankrupt or get acquired for their intellectual property.
    — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 18 June 2022
  • Yes, your company might go bankrupt, but our actors and directors are carrying firearms and burying their colleagues.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022
  • When companies go bankrupt, stockholders are typically the last in line to recover any funds.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The situation brewing is also reminiscent of the kind of thing that made crypto-lending firm Celsius Network go bankrupt.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2022
  • After buying Twitter, Musk cut more than half of its staff then proceeded to lay off and push out even more employees while repeatedly warning that Twitter could go bankrupt.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Moussa argued that Trump would have let auto companies go bankrupt during the financial crisis rather than bail them out, as President Barack Obama did in 2009.
    — Meg Kinnard, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2023
  • That, in of itself, can further harm health: Medical bills might be unaffordable, but a major element of why people go bankrupt after illness is lost wages.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 1 June 2020
  • States and the federal government require oil and gas companies to post bonds or other forms of financial assurance as a down payment in case firms go bankrupt before plugging wells.
    — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Basically, this means there’s a higher risk that the company might default (AKA, miss its interest or principal payments) or go bankrupt.
    — Amy Wagner and Steve Sprovach, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Einstein had to overcome growing up Jewish in 19th-century Germany, watching his father go bankrupt.
    — WIRED, 15 Sep. 2023
  • These programs won’t ever go bankrupt, as many fear, but officials must find ways to collect more revenues or cut spending in order to keep Social Security and Medicare on sound fiscal footing.
    — Christopher Howard, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Those difficulties have led to several small antibiotic makers to go bankrupt in recent years.
    — Denise Roland, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
  • And in cases where the new owners go bankrupt, oftentimes the financial responsibility for sealing these orphan wells falls to state or local governments.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023

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