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foreclose
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  • Few strangers passed through Welch these days, and almost all who did came to inflict one form of misery or another—to lay off workers, to shut down a mine, to foreclose on someone's house, to compete for the rare job opening.   (source)
    foreclose = take a property from a borrower who did not pay a loan
  • A mortgage was foreclosed on it, and we had to give up possession.   (source)
  • The next thing you know that mortgage will be foreclosed on Mis' Randall, and she and the children won't have a roof over their heads.   (source)
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  • The President will not foreclose any possibilities.
    foreclose = promise to keep from happening
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  • Within its walls there were half a dozen people who had still not recovered from the shock of having their apartments foreclosed (and then having to sue to get them back) when Joe defaulted on his construction loan.†   (source)
  • You know in your gut whom to carry and whom to foreclose.†   (source)
  • But the Website I'd found had been very specific about there being this huge parcel of oft-foreclosed land that no one had ever managed to develop.†   (source)
  • Of course, he never intended to collect the money-instead he would foreclose on any land or equipment they happened to own.†   (source)
  • Mike and I took turns mowing all the abandoned foreclosed properties in the complex—heavy rains in the spring had turned yards into jungles, which encouraged an influx of raccoons.†   (source)
  • He had just foreclosed on a house and offered to rent it to us on a month-to-month basis.†   (source)
  • The city of Edmonton foreclosed, and the Pollards lost everything but their house.†   (source)
  • Whatever pleasure they might have found in their expanded quarters was foreclosed before they ever reached home.†   (source)
  • And since she had been in default for so long, they could foreclose and sell the land far more quickly than normal.†   (source)
  • Especially in the mid-20th century, as manufacturing employment was rocketing toward its zenith, mistakes and disadvantages in childhood and adolescence did not foreclose adult opportunity.†   (source)
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  • Hospital bills arrived daily; the uninsured roofer had sent a lawyer after them, as had Grover, who stood ready to foreclose.†   (source)
  • " And so his father had gotten him a farm, had foreclosed on the man who'd bought it, with Will's help, from the Runian estate.†   (source)
  • When the Depression hit hardest, he foreclosed on dozens of businesses throughout the county while retaining the original owners to continue to work on salary, paying them just enough to keep them where they were, because they had nowhere else to go.†   (source)
  • Being a Bennett and having attended UNC didn't stop the bankers from trying to foreclose on the orchard.†   (source)
  • She screamed that the bankers were threatening to foreclose on the orchard, and then that she was going to call the police.†   (source)
  • And you, Madam, will kindly refrain from undoing my work behind my back and foreclosing mortgages on any of the people I'm courting or selling them rotten lumber or in other ways insulting them.†   (source)
  • Stowbody and Dawson foreclose every mortgage they can, and put in tenant farmers.†   (source)
  • Tom Walker never returned to foreclose the mortgage.†   (source)
  • You shall extort bonds, foreclose mortgages, drive the merchants to bankruptcy--†   (source)
  • He says he's sure he hates to foreclose mortgages, but it's the only way to make them respect the law."†   (source)
  • He was not ready to foreclose; indeed, he had the name of being one of the "easiest" men in the town.†   (source)
  • The bank had foreclosed a mortgage effected on the property thus pleasantly situated, by one of the Coketown magnates, who, in his determination to make a shorter cut than usual to an enormous fortune, overspeculated himself by about two hundred thousand pounds.†   (source)
  • He had left his little Bible at the bottom of his coat-pocket and his big Bible on the desk buried under the mortgage he was about to foreclose: never was sinner taken more unawares.†   (source)
  • He was on the point of foreclosing a mortgage, by which he would complete the ruin of an unlucky land-speculator for whom he had professed the greatest friendship.†   (source)
  • Besides, though I jested with him (as he supposed it) so often about my poverty, yet, when he found it to be true, he had foreclosed all manner of objection, seeing, whether he was in jest or in earnest, he had declared he took me without any regard to my portion, and, whether I was in jest or in earnest, I had declared myself to be very poor; so that, in a word, I had him fast both ways; and though he might say afterwards he was cheated, yet he could never say that I had cheated him.†   (source)
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