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Fido becomes at first a default, then a dependency.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Melton: That kind of sincerity is the default in Kansas and Missouri.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
The case asks whether the Fourth Amendment still means what Americans think it means as surveillance becomes automated, invisible, and broad enough to treat entire groups of ordinary people as searchable by default.
From Slate • May 20, 2026
In November 2016, Chopra told Epstein by email that “sleep is consciousness in its default mode.”
From Salon • May 19, 2026
The market, and the rating agencies, effectively had set the odds of default at 1 in 200.
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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