default (on)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for default (on)
Verb
  • American soybean farmers who long relied on Chinese sales are now being passed over for exports from Brazil, Argentina and elsewhere.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Pumps are working, but the storm cell that just passed over the SE Valley dropped a bunch of rain here.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Premier League football in the 2000s could be dramatic and explosive, but what the nostalgia for that era ignores is the number of dour, sterile games there were, many of them settled by a goal from a set piece.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • At some point, the truth becomes impossible to ignore.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Jones, again, slighted the punt coverage with a 61-yard return to the Carolina 14-yard line.
    Mike Kaye September 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The former Michigan and San Diego State coach, simply put, has been slighted by the hall.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Turner hasn’t forgotten the diligence his younger teammate showed throughout what could have been a frustrating period of his career.
    Jay King, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • And the word Spanx made your mind wander a little bit and nobody ever forgot it.
    Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Any naysaying about the $130 million-$140 million risk of Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed A CinemaScore Leonardo DiCaprio movie One Battle After Another underperforming can be disregarded, as Warners was able to afford that audacious auteur swing.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Fujie also published a newsletter arguing that the encouraged phone limitation was not based on scientific evidence and disregarded the rights of children and young residents.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The ensign, who had neglected to check the tides before entering the harbor, immediately reported his failure to his superiors, who fired him and hauled him before a court-martial.
    Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Directors of a Texas funeral home are accused of neglecting bodies found decomposing in their mortuary without working air conditioning, authorities say.
    Mike Stunson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Default (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/default%20%28on%29. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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