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default

[dih-fawlt, dee-fawlt] / dɪˈfɔlt, ˈdiˌfɔlt /




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“Private credit players say ‘Well, there’s been very little disruption from a bankruptcy perspective or a default perspective.’

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

In this case, it wants the court to order Netflix to delete any data "deceptively collected from Texans", cease processing their data for targeted advertising and to turn auto-play off by default for children's profiles.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Other candidates could get in on the action and, as Labour’s current leader, Starmer could run again by default.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

Myra Cheng, the study’s lead author and a computer-science PhD candidate at Stanford University, said that “by default, AI advice does not tell people that they’re wrong.”

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

The billion dollars whoever had sold Mike Burry his credit default swaps stood to lose, if the bonds went bad, replicated the potential losses of an actual bond owner.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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