How to Use creditor in a Sentence

creditor

noun
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  • She owes thousands of dollars to creditors.
  • 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
  • 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
  • While creditors weren’t seeking a wind-up order, Judge Chan noted the lack of progress.
    — TIME, 29 Jan. 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
  • The group of creditors, who call themselves the FTX 2.0 Coalition, believe the exchange has a future without him.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • The creditor matrix for all three companies is found here.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • In an update in April, Evergrande admitted that the plan was still short of support from a key group of creditors.
    — Laura He, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
  • If yes, please explain: Bankruptcy was paid back to creditors over 30 years ago.
    — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • No bank can survive if every creditor asks for their money back at once.
    — Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 17 Mar. 2023
  • In a 7-1 decision, the court sided with him and the other creditors, ruling that the FSIA did not apply in this circumstance.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
  • Yellen will also make a stop in Zambia, which will serve to highlight its huge debt to China, its biggest creditor.
    — Fatima Hussein, ajc, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The big takeaway: Trump is likely sitting on a huge pile of cash—but not enough to pay off his legal creditors with a simple wire transfer.
    — Kyle Mullins, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • As the riskiest tier for the creditors, its annual charge starts at 1000 basis points before tacking on SOFR.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Zambia was the first African country to default during the pandemic in late 2020, putting China, the nation’s largest creditor, in the spotlight.
    — TIME, 16 Oct. 2023
  • For years, activists pushing for debt relief for emerging markets have sought to remove some of the creditors’ leverage in these deals.
    — Zijia Song, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023
  • The creditors, some of them salty New Yorkers, responded predictably.
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 12 Mar. 2024
  • As a result, many homes have been left unfinished and suppliers and creditors left unpaid.
    — Theodora Yu, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The market gives creditors with money locked up in court proceedings the chance to cash out immediately rather than wait years for a payment.
    — Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Jenkins said simply owing a debt, even if the creditor is threatening violence against the debtor, does not equate to trafficking.
    — Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The result is that more trust property is protected from creditors.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The plan is subject to court approval and Cineworld acknowledges that court approval depends on certain creditor approvals.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 Apr. 2023
  • However, the decline in Hui’s net worth will be of interest to Evergrande’s creditors.
    — Bychloe Taylor, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The edtech giant sues its lenders for using predatory tactics and acting in bad faith, worsening the standoff with creditors.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 28 June 2023

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