Chapter 11

as in bankruptcy

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Recent Examples of Chapter 11 On Monday, the committees’ lawyers said the new Chapter 11 proposal would grant partial recoveries to unsecured creditors, including a $917 million contract claim to Central States Pension Fund. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 18 Mar. 2025 Forever 21's operator plans to have all of its more than 350 locations vacated before the end of next month following its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing over the weekend, the company said. Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2025 The tussle has cost it $18 million in legal fees, the company said in its Chapter 11 filing, and crippled its business. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2025 The impact of private equity in health care has been on display in Connecticut recently as Prospect Medical Holdings, a private equity company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this past January. Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for Chapter 11
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Noun
  • In recent months, there's also been bankruptcy filings from TGI Fridays and Red Lobster.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The recent bankruptcy filing of genetic testing company 23andMe, which allows users to spit in a tube and send away the sample for a detailed DNA analysis, has sparked the possibility that the data could revolutionize cold-case cracking.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • A day before, Florida's Senate Banking and Insurance Committee unanimously approved a bill extending the ban on executives responsible for a company's insolvency from taking a position at another insurance firm, increasing the duration from two to five years.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Some pension funds that had invested in gilts were pushed to the brink of insolvency, prompting the Bank of England to step in.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The ability to pivot, to adapt quickly when something isn’t working or another thing could work even better, is often the difference between failure and enduring success.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • For many Democrats in Congress, the failure to hold Trump’s national security team accountable signals a broader disregard for truth and accountability.
    Nik Popli, Time, 26 Mar. 2025

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“Chapter 11.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Chapter%2011. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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