liquidates

present tense third-person singular of liquidate
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as in pays
to give what is owed for used our lottery winnings to liquidate our debts

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Recent Examples of liquidates When the fund liquidates, the dividend dwelling is gone. Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 What happens to Spirit's assets like plane fleets and airline gates if the airline liquidates? Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026 The company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which liquidates a company by selling off its property to repay creditors. Corina Vanek, AZCentral.com, 8 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for liquidates
Verb
  • But that also eradicates a crucial option - to mount a show trial and scapegoat him for all the ills of his rule, thus absolving others.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Treating the underlying condition eradicates the need for drug treatments that act globally.
    Dr. Patricia Richard, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • That assassinates Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sparking retaliatory attacks by Iran across the Middle East.
    Jill Lawrence, Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Soleimani assassination | Trump orders a drone strike in Iraq that assassinates Qasem Soleimani, an influential Iranian military commander.
    Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 1 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Currently, a person who earns $184,500 per year pays the same amount in annual Social Security taxes as a person who earns $5 million per year.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026
  • The Goalkeeper’s Hands The keeper is the only player allowed to use their hands, and pays for it up top.
    Dr. Tal Patalon, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
Verb
  • Windows automatically erases them after 72 hours to prevent them from using too much disk space.
    Chris Hoffman, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • The whole thing with Pullman porters is they weren’t called by their names, they were all called George, so that erases your identity.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • Moriarty has reported on the yogurt shop murders for over 30 years.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • Not the family stuff, like Natalie’s spontaneous nipple piercing after making out with Cady’s maybe-daughter, Nevaeh (Malia Pyles), who later murders her own mother after kissing her, for way too long, on the mouth.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • Choose a soothing activity, maybe watercolor, music, cooking, or a quiet walk, and give it your full attention so your spirit settles.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2026
  • Merchants pay interchange on card payments and hold working balances that earn them nothing, and a coin that settles instantly, costs less to accept and, under Open USD’s model, pays them the yield on their balances answers both at once.
    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • Instead, this measure abolishes them.
    Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The Iranian parliament has just approved a law that abolishes prison sentences for those who had to leave Iran illegally.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But changing how the world executes agreements was never just about software.
    Keith Krach, Fortune, 3 July 2026
  • This command executes malicious code inside the AppleScript directly.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026

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“Liquidates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liquidates. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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