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




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F1 says the decision to press ahead with Qatar and Abu Dhabi, which was always the default option, has been taken because the situation in the two countries has not "negatively developed" in recent months.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

While Liquid and other AI frontier model vendors offer these smaller models optimized to run on devices, the majority of enterprise applications today simply default to cloud models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

He said that from 24 November "every school will have a curfew and a daily time limit switched on, and leaderboards switched off as default".

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

The feature was switched on by default for students at schools that had already enabled Gemini.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

If Lippmann would buy credit default swaps from Deutsche Bank’s CDO department, they, too, might do these trades with AIG, before AIG woke up and stopped doing them.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Google's omnipresent search engine now defaults to AI summaries of a person's query, and that hit the number of advertisements it was able to sell during the quarter.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Fund managers are racing to negotiate loan extensions on this as they try to avoid big losses from a potential wave of defaults by the companies they own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Banks also got more comfort around the guarantees from Broadcom that will protect them from losses in case Anthropic defaults on the loans, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Beyond measurable credit scores and loan defaults, the human impact of these standalone classes often hits home at graduation.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

On April 2, the nation’s largest subprime mortgage lender, New Century, was swamped by defaults and filed for bankruptcy.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Elon Musk, who runs rival AI and data center businesses, took aim at Son over his turbine splurge, alleging last week in a social-media post that SoftBank had defaulted on the orders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Officials are implementing new repayment plans, getting rid of old ones and reportedly preparing to restart debt collection on defaulted student loans.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

A few minutes later the Russian was defaulted, as he had to be, under rules that bar a player from "hitting a ball dangerously or recklessly, or with negligent disregard of the consequences."

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Zambia defaulted on its sovereign debt in 2020, with its debt-to-GDP ratio peaking at 124 percent in 2021, and later completed an IMF-supported programme.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

And then, of course, the economy tanked and the country defaulted on its debt.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

But the contract lays out various fees that could have inflated the amount owed, including $5,000 for defaulting and another $5,000 for blocking access to a bank account.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The stock fell again during in 1998 as markets grappled with turmoil over Russia defaulting on its debt and the collapse of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Two years ago, again at Wimbledon, it appeared officials were considering defaulting Medvedev for an outburst towards umpire Eva Asderaki-Moore.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

He tells staff to err on the side of public messaging: “You should be defaulting to doing this.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

It would probably be a lot easier for me to go over to her house...but again, my mind is defaulting to relying on Fiona for help.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen


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