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Growth stocks now are the default beneficiary of greater stability and flat to lower energy costs.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026
Provision for credit losses, an expense set aside to cover expected losses from loans or credit that may default, rose by $276 million to $467 million.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
Spirit is already in default of its agreement, Citibank said, and lenders had the right to seize airline assets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Yet it was not a clear and obvious error to give a foul, so a soft free-kick became a penalty by default.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
A smaller group used credit default swaps to make what often turned out to be spectacularly disastrous gambles on the relative value of subprime mortgage bonds—buying one subprime mortgage bond while simultaneously selling another.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing default
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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The Great Depression and The New Deal
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