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by default
prep.phr. In absence of any opposing action.
Usage examples of "by default".
None of them speaking to Kelyn, who slept on the floor by default and had no complaints about it.
The rules of honour, decency and common law go by default and moral degeneracy rears its ugly head.
He lost, naturally, and those magics of his she could operate became hers by default.
They come to be accepted by degrees, by precedent, by implication, by erosion, by default, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other—.
As to the communist conspirators in the service of Soviet Russia, they are the best illustration of victory by default: their successes are handed to them by the concessions of their victims.