How to Use insolvent in a Sentence

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• In a country once billed as the Switzerland of the Middle East, the banks are largely insolvent.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• Their price collapsed, and, in a matter of hours, FTX was insolvent.
  — Max Chafkin, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• The bailout is the largest to date under a 2021 package for near-insolvent retirement plans.
  — Heather Gillers, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
• Before the act passed, more than 200 pension plans were on pace to become insolvent in the near term, according to the White House.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
• Yes, today's 2,315 insolvent banks can luck out on the market.
  — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Caught in the midst of the currency storm, banks became insolvent, and the economy collapsed.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 24 Sep. 2021
• In fact, the American taxpayer will bear the cost of union plans that were insolvent long before the pandemic.
  — Howard B. Adler and Alex J. Pollock, WSJ, 11 July 2022
• Regulators hoped insolvent S&Ls could grow their way out of trouble, avoiding the need for a bailout.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 4 May 2022
• The Medicare hospital trust fund is scheduled to be insolvent in 2026.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
• In 2017, the system was declared insolvent and placed in receivership.
  — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2020
• That does not mean those banks are doomed — insolvent lenders can survive if they are given time to recover and work through their losses.
  — Stacy Cowley, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• Now, those plans are projected to remain insolvent through at least 2051.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
• McCahey wasn’t present for the meeting, but his lawyer said the company’s accounts had all been frozen and the business was insolvent.
  — Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
• Eventually, the spokesman said, the theater, which is not insolvent, hoped to return to producing its own work.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
• Dozens of carriers have stopped writing business or gone insolvent in those states.
  — Brianna Sacks, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2023
• The Fed would reject an insolvent bank from borrowing, but the program has long carried a stigma that to need the discount window is a sign of dire trouble.
  — David Benoit, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2023
• Chief among them was Central States, which was expected to become insolvent by 2026.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2022
• The company became insolvent in 2019 and sold its assets after funds promised by a Chinese investor failed to come through.
  — Sarah McBride, Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• As the Federal Reserve raised rates, funding costs rose and many thrifts became insolvent.
  — Charles W. Calomiris and Phil Gramm, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023
• If the borrower becomes insolvent or cannot otherwise repay the loan, the lender can foreclose on the loan and then sell the property to recoup their money.
  — Megan Micco, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• Six of those companies were declared insolvent this year, even before Ian.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
• Terms of use for Celsius specify that the legal status of users’ crypto holdings will be unclear if the firm were to become insolvent.
  — Paul Kiernan, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• But only because most of Russia’s banks over the years have been folded and rendered insolvent, and a danger to the Russian financial system.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• There was another group that came to testify about how the fund that pays the garment workers when they don’t get paid [by their employer] was pretty much insolvent.
  — Julia Gall, Marie Claire, 12 Sep. 2021
• Investors are often only willing to provide such a loan in exchange for a high-ranking claim to the insolvent company’s assets in the event of default.
  — Jeremy Hill, Bloomberg.com, 16 Aug. 2022
• But Social Security is not some Ponzi scheme that is going to be insolvent anytime soon.
  — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2021
• Bank owners and managers who know their business is insolvent—as appeared to be the case with SVB—essentially know they won’t be allowed to fail by the government.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
• Because such a clause doesn't kick in until the debtor is insolvent or bankrupt, the first element will be easily satisfied.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021
• The new financial obligations were intended to act as a safety net for taxpayers in the event oil and gas companies become insolvent and cannot pay to plug wells.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Without those extra payments — made annually through an agreement between the county and the fund’s board — it’s slated to be insolvent by 2055.
  — Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024