How to Use debt load in a Sentence

debt load

noun
  • Boeing’s $52 billion debt load is big by junk issuer standards.
    Caleb Mutua, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Paramount is currently weighed down by a heavy debt load that threatens its credit rating.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 8 July 2024
  • The overall debt load is staggering, and observers say there’s a good chance Drahi may lose his empire.
    Peter Green, Quartz, 5 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That has involved past capital raises to offset the company’s high debt load.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2024
  • 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

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