as in ruin
the inability to pay one's debts
learned the hard way the costs of declaring bankruptcy
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Recent Examples of bankruptcy
The key is matching the debt relief strategy to your specific situation rather than assuming bankruptcy automatically solves everything.
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Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
The owner of the new Mandarin Oriental hotel, planned in downtown Boca Raton, expects to have its construction completed later this year despite a filing seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
—Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2026
Any reorganization plan proposed would require the approval of bankruptcy court.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 9 Jan. 2026
The county, which already ran Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, rescued O’Connor Hospital in San Jose and Saint Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy from bankruptcy in 2019, and purchased Regional Medical Center in San Jose in 2025.
—Daniel Borenstein, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
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The ache for vitality among ruin.—
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In the ruins of the kitchen sat two cast-iron Le Creuset stew pots — the only survivors.—
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Patients’ failure to take their medicine as prescribed is a major challenge that contributes to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths and billions of dollars in health care costs annually.—
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Continue reading … SKIDDING TO SAFETY – All plane tires burst on Boeing 767 during harrowing landing failure.—
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Both programs face long-term sustainability challenges, but broad reform remains politically difficult—even as insolvency looms.—
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But for now, the continent’s capital markets are small and fragmented, with each country maintaining its own rules about everything from insolvency to tax to pensions.—
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“Bankruptcy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bankruptcy. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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