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Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect, affecting about 1 in 100 babies born each year.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

A sample of FHA mortgages recently reviewed by the Housing and Urban Development Department found 76% contained a defect, up from 67% in late 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Doctors have used ground-breaking surgery on an unborn baby to successfully correct a birth defect while he was still inside the womb.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

I was born with a heart defect, so I see a cardiologist every year to check up on it.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

Rick said, “There is a defect in your empathic, role-taking ability. One which we don’t test for. Your feelings toward androids.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

And construction defects can cause mold growth, which thousands of Americans believe is making them sick.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Home inspectors don’t open up walls and remove flooring to check for hidden defects in a home, he noted.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Within weeks of the renovation’s completion, numerous defects were spotted, with a liner installed on the bottom of the pool peeling in various places, and algae again infesting the water.

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026

That reevaluation identified a potential association between paraquat exposure and thyroid impacts and birth defects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Still, the horrifying stories about mothers trying to console their babies born with microcephaly and other tragic birth defects were heartbreaking.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

Arabs within the SDF's ranks also defected en masse after Sharaa's army took control of two previously Kurdish-held provinces, Raqa and Deir Ezzor, leaving them at half their strength, according to Syria specialist Fabrice Balanche.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

The firm had begun to evolve in recent years, but slowly: In 2016, it was dealt a shock when a star dealmaker, Scott Barshay, defected to Paul, Weiss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

"Knowing wouldn't have meant anything to me back then. So I paid more attention to the lyrics," says the 25-year-old who defected in 2019.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

But last week, the replies were inundated with complaints that Letterboxd had defected to the corporate dark side, along with fearful pleas for the platform’s owners to reconsider.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

My mother embraced Edward after he defected from Dauntless.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

The company is currently rolling out more support initiatives to prevent merchants from defecting to other platforms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

At the dinner, I tried to get a sense if there were more women like Smith—sweet, older Christian Alabamians—snapping and defecting to the left.

From Slate ● May 4, 2026

He said: "It would have been obvious to him from the moment of defecting that continued occupation would be unsustainable."

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

The defecting lawmakers are making it heard that their decision wasn’t taken lightly.

From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2026

He said that any defecting official betrayed both himself and his position as a leader and examplefor other Muslims.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey