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Investors have been ditching private credit funds amid fears that they have made batches of bad loans to software companies that could struggle due to the rapid rise of artificial intelligence coding tools.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Colman Domingo, Ryan Gosling, Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan and Charles Melton are among the actors who have been ditching traditional black tuxes for bolder get-ups.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2024

A growing number of Iranian women have been ditching their veils since the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in the custody of the morality police last September.

From Reuters • Apr. 1, 2023

Market participants have been ditching risky assets and turning to safe havens such as the dollar amid worries about an economic slowdown as energy prices surge.

From Reuters • Jul. 7, 2022

The experiments come as consumers have been ditching their jumbo pay-TV packages in favor of smaller bundles of TV channels or streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2017