Example Sentences
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Defaults have a lot of power: The investment option that someone starts with is likely to be the one that they stick with.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 26, 2026
Defaults have been just 0.25% of the BDC’s software loans.
From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026
Defaults remain relatively low in BDCs overall but have risen, averaging 3.78% in September compared with 3.27% at the end of 2024, according to the financial-data provider Octus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
Defaults on debts in the property sector since 2021 have resulted in half-finished apartment buildings, disgruntled homebuyers and fears the industry’s troubles might further slow the world’s second-largest economy and shake global financial markets.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2023
Number and nature of defaults committed by Indian convicts:— Nature of Defaults.
From Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 by McNair, John Frederick Adolphus
