as in scar
something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing
the statue has a slight defect on the base, so it's being sold at a discount
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Recent Examples of defect
Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 25 Nov. 2024
In 2021, over 80,000 Kona EVs were recalled due to a fire risk caused by an LG battery defect after reports of a dozen battery fires.
—Umar Shakir, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
Jennifer Medina, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2024
As president of baseball operations Buster Posey and general manager Zack Minasian embark on their first offseason, starting pitching stands to be a priority — even more so after Snell defected to the Dodgers on Tuesday night.
—Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2024
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Noun
This condition can be congenital, such as when someone is born with a defect that causes narrowing of the aortic valve.
—Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 25 Nov. 2024
In 2021, over 80,000 Kona EVs were recalled due to a fire risk caused by an LG battery defect after reports of a dozen battery fires.
—Umar Shakir, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
Verb
Scroll to play video This election, Democrats are trying to guard against not only voters defecting to Republicans, but also voters who are likely to stay home.
—Jennifer Medina, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2024
As president of baseball operations Buster Posey and general manager Zack Minasian embark on their first offseason, starting pitching stands to be a priority — even more so after Snell defected to the Dodgers on Tuesday night.
—Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2024
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The playwright August Wilson, who’s best known for his series chronicling 20th-century Black American life (colloquially known as the Century Cycle), paid forensic attention to how everyday families bear the scars—and inherit the triumphs—of collective histories.Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
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However, its skeleton bears a curious scar for those who look closely.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
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Reich was one of some 40,000 Germans stripped of their citizenship by the Nazis for emigrating.Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 8 Dec. 2024
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Like many Irish before her, Lanigan emigrated for better opportunities in England.Nate Jones, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
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The horse chestnut leaf blotch pathogen overwinters as fruiting bodies in leaves infected during the previous season.Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2024
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This fungal disease appears as gray blotches on the bark, eventually developing into sunken cankers.Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2024
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Under the staunchly secular Soviets, pilgrimage sites such as Manzhyly-Ata were fenced off to prevent spiritual visitors; officials even bulldozed trees or graves, Choitonbaev noted.Diana Kruzman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2024
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The team suggests these were linked with ceremonial pathways and pilgrimage routes.ByRodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 23 Sep. 2024
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By no fault of his own, Aiyuk's lengthy hold-in was just the tip of the iceberg for the 49ers this season.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
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And there was the catastrophic mega-tsunami of 1700, originating from a magnitude 9 earthquake over the Cascadia fault system, which runs offshore from Northern California to Vancouver Island for 700 miles.Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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This authentic replica of an ancient Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe was built in the 1970s and has since voyaged thousands of nautical miles.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Nov. 2024
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Modes of reaching the destination are expanding as Aurora Expeditions joins small-ship pioneers Heritage Expeditions in voyaging to these under-the-radar islands, on its new, state-of-the-art small expedition ship, the Douglas Mawson, from late 2025.Chloe Sachdev, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Nov. 2024
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In their closing minutes, the Gothams threw a curveball by awarding Best Feature to A Different Man, a dark dramedy about an actor with a facial deformity that had otherwise been entirely shut out.Nate Jones, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2024
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Or where using human labor means repetitive stress, deformity and injury, such as in many industrial tasks.Amir Husain, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Since Election Day, world leaders have trekked to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2024
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As the pandemic battered the region, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, leaving directly from their country or from neighboring ones, trekked north through Panama’s Darién Gap, where Haitians and Ecuadoreans were also fleeing their countries’ gangs.Will Freeman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Defect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defect. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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