Reorganization adjustment funding of professional fee escrow account.

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Reorganization adjustment payment of pre petition trade claims.

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Reorganization adjustment payment to key employee incentive plan holdback escrow account.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of cash restricted as to withdrawal or usage. Cash includes, but is not limited to, currency on hand, demand deposits with banks or financial institutions, and other accounts with general characteristics of demand deposits.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-SubTopic 210
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Fresh Start Accounting - Schedule of Change in Restricted Cash (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2021	Apr. 23, 2021	Dec. 31, 2020
Reorganization Chapter11 [Line Items]
Change in restricted cash	$ 24,266	$ 35,447	$ 24,511
Reorganization Adjustments \| Reorganization, Chapter 11, Predecessor, before Adjustment
Reorganization Chapter11 [Line Items]
Funding of professional fee escrow account		35,003
Payment of key employee incentive plan holdback escrow account		(1,697)
Payment of pre-petition trade claims		(1,133)
Change in restricted cash		$ 32,173