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to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts
several bad investments bankrupted him
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Recent Examples of bankrupted
Time, 24 Sep. 2025
Multiple rocket explosions nearly bankrupted the company.
—Joel Shulman, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Jerry Garcia's 1977 pet project, which nearly bankrupted the band, screens in IMAX this weekend.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
After two decades of free-spending leftist populism that has bankrupted the country, Bolivia has few options but to embrace responsible economic management.
—Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
Nuclear liabilities cited by Jacobson include the threat of future Fukushima-like disasters, nuclear weapons proliferation facilitated by large-scale uranium enrichment, and the financial risks such as those that recently bankrupted Westinghouse.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2017
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In the late 1830s, as a devastating financial crisis bankrupted antislavery societies across the North, the movement seemed splintered and powerless to keep up its petition pressure campaign.
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Looking at the books of the three hospitals, one, Waterbury Hospital, was the bankrupt property of investors who were revealed as financially challenged during its bankruptcy proceedings.—
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Federal prosecutors have charged top executives at the subprime auto lender Tricolor with conspiring to defraud lenders and investors of the now-bankrupt company.—
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McKenzie and Sebastian's decision to embrace the unexpected made their wedding even better when an opposite reaction to the rain could have ruined the whole celebration.—
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But becoming the operator ruined the magic.—
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The district said if the loan is denied, the district is projected to be insolvent after the 2026-27 school year.—
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Would Congress really allow Social Security to go insolvent?—
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Season 5 also introduces colorful newcomers, like Minnie Driver, who plays a a penniless princess turned hustler who unexpectedly becomes Agence Grateau’s white knight.—
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The bank would not go broke, leaving depositors penniless.—
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“Bankrupted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bankrupted. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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