How to Use creditor in a Sentence

creditor

noun
  • She owes thousands of dollars to creditors.
  • China is also the largest creditor to many African nations.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2024
  • But that is a decision that creditors have to make all the time: Is the judgment worth pursuing.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Take the extra step to give the creditor a call and confirm the amount due.
    Juan Carlos Medina, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
  • At the end of the day, what the creditor ends up with is a lien on that interest.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Once the case is in court, creditors who say they're owed money can then seek a piece of the assets.
    CBS News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • In some cases, your creditors may even take you to court.
    Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The creditors and attorneys are then paid, and the children get what’s left.
    Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2023
  • By that point, more than a hundred creditors had lined up.
    Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • By then, Whistler was deep in debt, with Leyland his main creditor.
    Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2022
  • These sales are often done for a fraction of the amount owed so the creditor can recover some of the money.
    Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • This includes the name and mailing information of the debt collector, the name of the creditor and the debt amount.
    Cheryl Winokur Munk, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
  • While creditors weren’t seeking a wind-up order, Judge Chan noted the lack of progress.
    TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The global icon owed money to more than 65 creditors during the time of his passing.
    Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 28 June 2024
  • This means a creditor can’t prevail in court after four years have passed.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2021
  • On top of that, your creditor may charge their own processing fee.
    Sarah Brady, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Lawyers for the firm’s creditors argued that Fisker should have filed for bankruptcy late last year.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 30 June 2024
  • That means the creditor can only receive any distributions that would be made by the LLC to the member.
    Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 2 July 2023
  • For both of these hindrances to building credit scores, talking to creditors is a good first step.
    Nerdwallet, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Every dollar in fees is deducted from the pool of funds that will be returned to creditors at the end of the bankruptcies.
    Yiwen Lu, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • All this even as Cred’s customers and creditors go unpaid.
    Jessica Klein, Fortune, 6 July 2023
  • Unsecured creditors — such as the Ledgerwoods — are paid if there are funds left over.
    Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 6 May 2024
  • The group of creditors, who call themselves the FTX 2.0 Coalition, believe the exchange has a future without him.
    WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • This allows your lender to do a title search to make sure the property has no liens or legal claims against it by a creditor.
    Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The judge did direct FTX to file an unredacted creditor matrix under seal with the court, but the company has yet to do so.
    CBS News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Unfortunately, Will is in a lot of debt, and the creditors came calling.
    Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Do not pay a creditor with a high-interest credit card to get out from underneath the debt.
    Jennifer Chesak, Health, 4 July 2023
  • These funds will be used to pay off Copia and numerous other creditors.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
  • The creditor matrix for all three companies is found here.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • When the artist Enrique Martínez Celaya was 9 and living with his family in a storage room in Madrid, a creditor came banging on the door.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022

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