Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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That has bankrupted hundreds of small developers and depressed China’s economic growth.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
The digital asset crash has bankrupted companies, cost retail investors dearly and has lawmakers scrambling to draft legislation.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
Vorbe said Moise has bankrupted the startup businesses that were developing in Haiti and has annihilated the education system.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2019
It has bankrupted GM and Chrysler, sent Ford to the brink.
From The Verge ● Jun. 12, 2014
Now the war in Europe, through the grinding of wheels which I can't comprehend, has bankrupted the street railway and the chair factory, and the town is busted.”
From An Alabaster Box by Stockton Mulford
