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Example Sentences
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If the same piece of music is used at the end of three different movies, it becomes song of the year by default, right?
From Los Angeles Times
When asked about the magnitude of a matchup, Rams players typically default to the ‘no-game-is-bigger-than-any-other” line.
From Los Angeles Times
Fund managers don’t expect Vanke’s troubles to change the picture much, reasoning that Beijing would step in with help if fears emerged that defaults might spread.
From Barron's
“People as they are working, they are much more familiar with the accumulation phase, and that can be handled very neatly through defaults, but retirement income doesn’t lend itself so easily to defaults,” said Stinnett.
From MarketWatch
In response to these laws, as well as feminist pressure, most newsrooms by the 1980s moved toward a default rule of not naming victims.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.