as in negligence
the nonperformance of an assigned or expected action
a default in the repayment of a bank loan
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Recent Examples of default
Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Since the breaches, Snowflake has updated its systems to require multifactor authentication to be turned on by default.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
Adriana Morga, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
By 2011, its net operating income had fallen by nearly half and the company was close to defaulting on the debt.
—Monica Hunter-Hart, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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Noun
The default response protocol being used for most of the major generative AI apps such as ChatGPT, GPT-4o, o1, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, and others is customarily going to be to word responses with clues or hints about certainty and uncertainty.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Since the breaches, Snowflake has updated its systems to require multifactor authentication to be turned on by default.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
Borrowers who can’t or don’t pay risk delinquency and eventually default.
—Adriana Morga, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
By 2011, its net operating income had fallen by nearly half and the company was close to defaulting on the debt.
—Monica Hunter-Hart, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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The filing also mentions a negligence and breach of contract lawsuit filed against Trinity Water Services, LLC, a consolidated entity of Reserve Petroleum, seeking relief in excess of $1,000,000.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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In the months after, the dispute spilled onto social media and then into court—with Lanez charged with three felonies, including discharging a firearm with gross negligence—and many people took his side, accusing Pete of lying about what had happened.Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
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Kimberly Clausing, a former Treasury Department official in the Biden administration and a UCLA professor of tax law, said the GOP will probably overestimate the revenue from tariffs and ignore the negative economic impact of the duties.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Speaking with SiriusXM, Gramm lamented that Foreigner’s request to have its original members perform a medley of greatest hits was ignored — instead, younger artists Kelly Clarkson and Demi Lovato, as well as friend of the group Sammy Hagar, were chosen to perform on their behalf.Devon Ivie, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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The other factor is the failure of the Biden administration to put an end to the Israeli wars that caused the deaths of more than 43,000 Palestinians by continuing supplies of weapons.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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The failures of the paternalistic War on Poverty led to more punitive forms of disciplining Black men.Ben Zdencanovic, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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Federal and state regulators say that SpaceX has disregarded environmental rules at its launch site in South Texas, violating the Clean Water Act by releasing industrial wastewater during launches.Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Again, disregarding tiny nations brings us to about 30th place.Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2024
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Briefly, this index adds up all the adverse events – including forms of neglect, abuse or other household dysfunction – an individual experienced during childhood into a single cumulative score.Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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On an international level, too..., one country’s climate response can easily leave another country impoverished, either through neglect, foolishness or outright malevolence.Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
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Charlie has asked that his Reddit handle be omitted from this story.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
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There are entire sections of the game that omit the gunplay, instead relying on subtle gadgets, branching dialogue trees, and creative problem solving to progress.Cade Onder, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
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After the Sharks failed to clear the puck inside their own zone, rookie defenseman Owen Pickering slid a pass over to Drew O’Connor, who fired a puck toward the Sharks net.Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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As demonstrated by Oxy, a huge bank of fans is set up to suck in air that is passed over a chemical that absorbs CO2.Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Arab Americans are one voting bloc that’s used to being slighted by both major parties.Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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In this case, the full-band parts of the concert have no reason to be slighted if someone feels compelled to single out Hart’s section as primo.Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Aug. 2024
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“Default.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/default. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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