defect

If an aircraft crashes, we focus on finding the engineering defect, correcting it, and enforcing established liability standards for the damage created.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The defect was already present during the earliest stages of disease activity, including in patients with clinically mild IBD.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

The contract explicitly provided that she would terminate the pregnancy if the fetus had a serious birth defect and the intended parents requested an abortion.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Ahmed and Gilkar had asked West to abort the pregnancy after a scan at 20 weeks showed the foetus had a severe heart defect.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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

This is not the first case in which a surrogate has refused to terminate a pregnancy after the intended parents learned that the fetus had serious birth defects.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The researchers combined genetic analyses of patients with congenital heart defects with experiments involving zebrafish, mouse stem cells, and cellular models.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

He also acknowledged that if the U.S. slows AI development alongside China, and the latter defects, it could lead to China’s geopolitical dominance.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Martin Boyd, from the charity, says that since the Grenfell fire, it has become clear that "the law is still stacked against the leaseholders who have a limited means of redress for building defects".

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Everyone who defects has adjustment problems,” Ko Gyoung-bin, the director-general of Hanawon, told me when I visited the place.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

The book’s title refers to the Soviet agent Oleg Lyalin, a relatively low-level but irrepressibly ambitious KGB operative who defected to Britain in 1971.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Kendall had been a key backer of Democrat Andrew Jackson in the 1828 election, having defected from Henry Clay’s Whigs.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

"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

Later, Celia would learn with sadness that the girl had defected while on tour in Oaxaca and was playing a psychotic housewife on a popular Mexican novela.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Then came the next bombshell as it emerged that Reform MS for Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg Sarah Cooper-Lesadd was defecting to Plaid Cymru.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

"That's not going to appeal to waverers, or to moderate conservatives who might be thinking about defecting."

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

In recent quarters, the company has rolled out more support initiatives to prevent merchants from defecting to other platforms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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

Internal strife in Parthia had its leaders distracted and its allies defecting.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby