default
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“Pretty much all the contracts we’ve signed, the default is all data is deleted,” said Hsu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Investment-grade bonds are safer in terms of default risk, but have lower yields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Two slices had been the default for years.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Kekesi added that having devices with child safety features as a default meant adults don't have to "surrender unnecessary personal information to multiple apps and websites".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
There was this event, called a default, that either did or did not happen.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Diedrichs said unless the designers prompt AI to show realistic or diverse features, "it's going to give you an image that defaults to the average" data set of the "narrow" traditional beauty standards.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Certainly, the Consols proved a better bet than the high-yielding South American bonds whose serial defaults played a precipitating role in the London credit crisis of 1825.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Private-credit defaults are up 1%, 6% or 19%, depending whom you ask.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
“We’re on our own,” Chatzky noted, “but defaults are coming.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 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
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Radford Studio Center, which sold for $1.85 billion in 2021, was seized by lenders after its previous owner defaulted on its debt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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
When Hichilema, 64, came into office in 2021 after a landslide victory, Zambia had recently defaulted on its international debt and had an annual inflation rate of more than 24%.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
However, China defaulted on these bonds in 1938.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Their main argument, in defense of the underlying loans, was that, in their short history, they had never defaulted in meaningful amounts.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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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
Plans also call for eliminating teacher-student staff ratios, defaulting caps to the licensing requirements of each state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 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
Starting in June 2025, with the pause having ended nine months prior, borrowers began defaulting again for the first time since the pandemic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
It wasn’t immediately obvious—after all, the best way to avoid the risk of General Electric’s defaulting on its debt was not to lend to General Electric in the first place.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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