How to Use debt load in a Sentence
debt load
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That has involved past capital raises to offset the company’s high debt load.
— Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2024 -
That has resulted in the carrier having a substantial debt load.
— Chris Morris, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024 -
That's expanded the shadow of its $3.3 billion debt load, which includes over $1.1 billion in bonds coming due within a year.
— Hope King, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024 -
Icahn could not be reached for comment on his debt load as of press time.
— John Hyatt, Forbes, 3 May 2023 -
Many of the moves were part of an effort to help pay down an enormous debt load of about $50 billion.
— John Koblin, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023 -
Proceeds will be used to pay down CI Financial’s hefty debt load.
— Lauren Thomas, wsj.com, 11 May 2023 -
Are there even any real buyers for the whole package given its debt load (WBD has lots of debt of its own)?
— Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023 -
The debt load from its merger with GateHouse has also weighed on the company.
— Katie Robertson, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023 -
Disney could put $25 billion of Disney debt on the deal, cutting its debt load to $20 billion.
— Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023 -
Page raised concerns about the city’s debt load to fund capital improvement projects.
— Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2024 -
But the company still faces major challenges due to its heavy linear TV presence, as well as a heavy debt load.
— Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2024 -
Otherwise — just as with the US — scrutiny of its rising debt load will just keep mounting too.
— Craig Stirling, Fortune Europe, 9 May 2024 -
But as Bank of America points out, good luck finding a buyer willing to cover that debt load.
— Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 July 2024 -
In July, Musk disclosed that Twitter has negative cash flow due to a 50 percent drop in ad revenue and a heavy debt load.
— Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2023 -
In July, Musk said the company's ad revenue had plunged 50%, while also noting its heavy debt load.
— Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2023 -
The suspension will kick the next potential fight over the nation’s debt load to 2025 — past the next presidential election.
— Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 29 May 2023 -
The nation's total debt load has almost doubled during that time to $31 trillion.
— Lisa Mascaro and Josh Boak, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023 -
The strategy has come at a cost for New World, driving its debt load higher just as interest rates are soaring.
— Shawna Kwan, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2023 -
Those windfalls, coupled with massive cost cutting since the merger closed, have helped the company trim its debt load to about $43 billion as of Q3.
— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024 -
This debt load often leaves little room for long-term savings for retirement or a home down payment.
— Natalie Colley, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023 -
That, combined with headwinds from streaming costs at the studios, and the C-suite need to reduce crippling debt load, has led to a swath of job cuts industrywide.
— Katie Campione, Deadline, 22 July 2024 -
Ultimately, this means there will be less money for everything else the U.S. might want to spend money on – or the overall debt load will rise even faster.
— Hakan Yilmazkuday, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2023 -
But the urgency to lighten its debt load may have increased as WeWork grapples with headwinds in its business.
— Peter Eavis, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023 -
Since then, the company has been struggling to control its huge debt load and has prioritized cost-cutting.
— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023 -
Most creditors—from the mortgage company to the hospital to the IRS—are willing to discuss reductions in the debt load, or at least in the terms of repayment.
— Beth Decarbo, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2023 -
With a heavy debt load and shrinking private sector, the country was vulnerable to the economic shocks from the pandemic and Ukraine war.
— Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2023 -
But even with those savings, the agreement provides clear evidence that the nation’s overall debt load will not be shrinking anytime soon.
— Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 2 June 2023 -
The company emerged from bankruptcy at the end of 2020 with settlements that included a reduction in its debt load.
— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024 -
Party City, the largest party supply store in the US, filed for bankruptcy in January after struggling to pay off its $1.7 billion debt load.
— Samantha Delouya, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023 -
And while the bonds can be converted into stock, reducing its debt load, that would dilute the holdings of current shareholders.
— Alicia Wallace, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
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