as in devoid
utterly lacking in something needed, wanted, or expected
the company's product development team was bankrupt of ideas
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as in derelict
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as in insolvent
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Recent Examples of bankrupt
Iain Martin, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
If not regulated, entire banks may be invested in speculative stock prices, which can then crash and decimate money supplies and bankrupt financial institutions.
—Reco McCambry, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2024
But opponents say allowing unlimited opt-outs would effectively bankrupt the long-term care system.
—Melissa Santos, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
Joshua Wong, Quartz, 3 Sep. 2019
From Henry Ford to Donald Trump, America has lionized business leaders (and shameless bankrupts) who disdain history.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
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Adjective
Instead, real estate software group Yardi bought the bankrupt startup for just $450 million after striking a deal with WeWork’s lenders.
—Iain Martin, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
If not regulated, entire banks may be invested in speculative stock prices, which can then crash and decimate money supplies and bankrupt financial institutions.
—Reco McCambry, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Verb
Such laws, Roth once said, would bankrupt farmers like him.
—Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2024
But opponents say allowing unlimited opt-outs would effectively bankrupt the long-term care system.
—Melissa Santos, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
China’s Hong Kong puppet regime, albeit bankrupt of any legitimacy, is still unwilling to cede power to the people.
—Joshua Wong, Quartz, 3 Sep. 2019
From Henry Ford to Donald Trump, America has lionized business leaders (and shameless bankrupts) who disdain history.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bankrupt
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Delle, devoid for so long from its intrinsic need for social interaction might be filling in the gaps by talking to himself.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2023
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The medication has hallucinogenic effects that alter the perception of sight and sound and cause users to feel devoid from pain and out of control of their surroundings.Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2023
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Although the name suggests otherwise, the custard should never be allowed to actually boil, which would risk scrambling the eggs and ruining the custard.Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
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Ventilation along the roofline ensures airflow to prevent the dampness that can ruin belongings.Miles Walls, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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However, rumors that the derelict mansion in the video was Jordan’s have since been debunked.Megan Johnson, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2024
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Maine’s housing stock skews old, with high rates of derelict and seasonally vacant properties.Donovan Lynch, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2024
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The group found that Trump’s agenda would make the government program insolvent in six years, shrinking the current timeline by a third, and expanding Social Security’s cash shortfall by trillions of dollars. 5.Kristian Burt, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
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Trump's change would make Social Security’s retirement trust fund insolvent more thanone year earlier – in early 2032 instead of late 2033 -- and the initial 21% cut across the board would deepen to a 25% cut, CRFB said.Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
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But the internet didn't buy it, and conspiracy theories began to fill the information void.Avery Lotz, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
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The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for his aborted martial law decree risks creating a leadership void and deeper political division in a key U.S. treaty partner.Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2024
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The second oldest juvenile delinquent: Lana Habash.Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 27 Apr. 2024
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After all, the recruitment of delinquents shows the desperate lengths Moscow must now go to with the Ukraine war draining its resources, Western intelligence officials point out.Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2024
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Then, in 1888, its acres were set aside for disabled and destitute veterans.Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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When destitute emigrants from Scandinavian countries moved to the United States in the late nineteenth century, the blue-eyed visitors were largely welcomed.Carla Norrlof, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
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On The Challenge: Battle of the Eras, these now-geriatric degenerates will duke it out for the only prize worth fighting for: making their kids proud.Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2024
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There’s the medieval brutality: Gómez was a homicidal degenerate who collected torture methods instead of stamps.Tim Padgett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
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“Bankrupt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bankrupt. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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