Example Sentences

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“It’s like history repeating itself,” said Detroit repossessor George Badeen, president of Allied Finance Adjusters, a trade group.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

“A docking play”: a shipowner defaults on his mortgage, but is in cahoots with a marina, which charges the repossessor hyperinflated docking fees.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2015

I start the game with a gorgeous car because I am a car "repossessor."

From Slate • Sep. 23, 2013

In this role, as with so many characters of his--the amnesiac wanderer in Paris, Texas, the deadpan-philosophical car repossessor in Repo Man--Stanton's gifts prove to be the quiet kind.

From Time • Nov. 29, 2