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Lockdowns normalised "learned loneliness" - seeing isolation as an acceptable default - alongside an over reliance on virtual communication.

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When the housing bubble collapsed, fraudulent investors defaulted at more than double the rate of honest ones.

The International Monetary Fund is also playing in the country’s rescue, and its default remedy is always devaluation.

When the council members took no action on Southers earlier this month after his re-nomination by the mayor, a seat on the commission remained his by default.

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Citing record-high loan defaults and delinquencies, the department in early September announced a new initiative to educate borrowers about the benefits and risks of federal student-loan borrowing.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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