How to Use going concern in a Sentence

going concern

noun
  • Good to see the feud with Maddy is still a going concern.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
  • But the would-be tech and creative tenants never arrived — at least, not enough of them to make the office buildings a going concern.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 24 Mar. 2026
  • While the low-end phone marketplace today has expanded to include some smartphones, Internet access limitations and throttled data plans of old are still a going concern around the globe.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 May 2025
  • When a business is sold as a going concern and continues operating under new ownership, employees must be offered continued employment on the same or substantially similar terms.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • New York — Investors are pretty confident that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, will still be a going concern in the year 2126.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Failure to line up financing would prevent Saks from filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which would give the company a chance to reorganize and potentially find a buyer willing to take on its business as a going concern.
    — Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Over the course of Lamborghini’s 60-plus years as a going concern, there have been just six models that (not counting the array of limited-run cars the company has become known for selling to the ultra-wealthy in the 21st Century) held the honor of serving as those company-defining icons.
    — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2025

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