debts

noun

plural of debt
1
as in obligations
something (as money) which is owed he filed for bankruptcy when his debts exceeded his assets

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2
as in crimes
a breaking of a moral or legal code forgive us our debts

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Recent Examples of debts The Casad farm is still paying down the debts from the last drought. — Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026 Tensions had been building between the Crown and the colonies over the previous decade, as Britain tried to levy taxes on its colonies to recoup war debts. — James Doubek, NPR, 3 July 2026 And mortgage rates won’t go down until government debts and deficits go down — since the housing market competes for borrowing with the federal government. — Andy Harris, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2026 Volatile, quarrelsome, dogmatic, and sure of his own brilliance, Reinhold outraged patrons, amassed huge debts, and turned his eldest son into an exhausted workhorse. — Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026 In these situations, questions often arise about who is responsible for paying which debts, how long creditors have to make claims, and whether those debts could continue to grow while an estate is being settled. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 1 July 2026 Days later, the camp owners filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with documents showing their total debts exceeded $10 million. — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 4 July 2026 States ignored national obligations, inflated currencies, shirked debts, erected trade barriers and destabilized commerce. — Max Taves, Mercury News, 3 July 2026 Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer in your 8th House of Shared Resources, bringing old financial details, debts, boundaries, or emotional obligations back up for review. — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for debts
  1. obligations
  2. crimes
  3. liabilities
  4. sins
  5. violations
Noun
  • Assisting with payroll tax issues, sales tax audits, and business restructuring to satisfy tax obligations.
    — Nick Perry, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Financial privacy erodes gradually through risk assessments, compliance obligations, information sharing partnerships and international standards presented as technical rather than political.
    — Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of obligations
Noun
  • The center says identity crimes have shifted from isolated events into more layered cases that can spread across multiple accounts and institutions.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
  • In a press release, Bonta reiterated his commitment to combating hate in California, and said the data obtained are accessible and critical to stopping such crimes in the state.
    — Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
Definition of crimes
Noun
  • Trump made 327 stock purchases on April 8, 2025, according to a CNBC analysis of the president’s annual financial disclosure for 2025 that includes trades, income and liabilities and was released on Tuesday.
    — Alex Harring,Luke Fountain, CNBC, 2 July 2026
  • What those discussions don't always address, though, are the liabilities that may be left behind.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Definition of liabilities
Noun
  • Do not allow the sins of the past to overwhelm, to drown the present.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • That relationship was based on sinners confessing their sins to this vicar.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
Definition of sins
Noun
  • Lawyers in the gas station lawsuit assert that technology is enabling antitrust violations.
    — Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Beijing has and been accused of serious human violations, including large-scale arbitrary detention of Uyghur and other Muslim minorities, in Xinjiang.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
Definition of violations

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