Example Sentences
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Defaults and losses have sparked a debate about the quality of private-credit loans and the future of the industry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Defaults have been just 0.25% of the BDC’s software loans.
From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026
Defaults inched up 1.3% in September, according to the Cox Automotive report, but are down 8.9% year over year.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 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
