default
noun
failure to act; inaction or neglect.
are defaulting
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present progressiveof default.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Two large private-credit loans, including software maker Medallia’s $3 billion debt, are defaulting, ratcheting up losses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
No more: A recent study has found that today’s investors are defaulting to far shorter look-back horizons.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 20, 2025
As earnings reports arrive, investors will also focus on comments from bank executives about whether Americans are defaulting on loans and paying back credit card debt.
From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2023
For one thing, the owners who are defaulting on their commercial real estate loans in 2023 aren’t struggling mom ‘n’ pops—they’re big, institutional investors.
From Slate ● May 26, 2023
Instances of such are defaulting trustees and similar misdemeanants, and, so far as the Act provides for their punishment, we have no quarrel with it.
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
