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The U.S. private credit default rate hit 6% last month, the highest since Fitch Ratings started tracking defaults in 2024.
From Barron's • May 30, 2026
Melton: That kind of sincerity is the default in Kansas and Missouri.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
Instead of the one-click default to your laptop’s last opened tab, you opened Etsy and bought a ceramic mug from a maker you’d been following on Instagram.
From Salon • May 27, 2026
The report said Roblox would let parents switch off direct chat entirely for under-16s, while Meta would hide teens' Instagram connection lists by default and develop AI tools to detect likely sexualised conversations in DMs.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
No ordinary human being had ever heard of these credit default swaps or, if Morgan Stanley had its way, ever would.
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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