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Discover LudwigThe phrase "actually bankrupt" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to emphasize the reality of someone's financial situation, often in contrast to previous beliefs or statements.
Example: "Despite the rumors of a recovery, the company is actually bankrupt and unable to pay its debts."
Alternatives: "truly bankrupt" or "really bankrupt".
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Judge Arterton's decision also questioned whether Long-Term Cactuallyas actually bankrupt when it was bailed out by the banks.
Dozens of city and state public employee pension plans are on the verge of bankruptcy – or are actually bankrupt – from Rhode Island to California; in 2010, a survey of 126 state and local plans showed assets of $2.7 trillion and liabilities of $3.5 trillion, an $800 billion shortfall.
That was actually bankrupt.
Actually bankrupt, he tries to poison Susanna with mushroom soup several years later for her inheritance.
A woman in a wheelchair was trying to speak into a microphone and tell her story: she had been denied treatment for her malady (whatever the hell it was, the lazy loafer) and was living proof of the inadequacy and heartlessness of the current health care system, the one we were here to preserve, protect and defend, even if it would actually bankrupt and/or kill each and every one of us in the end.
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Indeed, many struggling companies are not broken up until they have actually gone bankrupt.
As borrowers become "distressed," the credit card issuer has more time to pile on interest charges and fees until the client actually goes bankrupt.
Section 111 of the CHOICE Act would repeal Title II of the Dodd-Frank Act, which permits regulators to place a major bank in receivership before it actually becomes bankrupt.
We learn a great deal when companies actually go bankrupt; e.g., about Enron (see the excellent book "The Smartest Guys in the Room," by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind) and about Lehman (see the bankruptcy examiner's report).
It all promises plenty of work for investment banks, unbundling the behemoths they helped build.It is still unlikely that any of the big telecoms companies will actually go bankrupt.
VCs don't need to wait in the Centurion Lounge at SFO in order to catch a glimpse at crushing poverty — all they have to do is look in front of their homes in San Francisco to see the homelessness and deprivation, or maybe travel just a few minutes east to cities like Stockton, Vallejo, and Richmond, which are teetering on bankruptcy (or in the case of Stockton, has actually gone bankrupt).
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