defect
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About 20 weeks into the pregnancy, the parents learned that the fetus had a severe heart defect.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
In these cases, a heart defect is part of a broader genetic syndrome that can also affect other parts of the body.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
West has since been pushing for custody over the baby, born last month with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a defect where the left side of the heart cannot pump enough blood to the body.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Housing Ombudsman found Clarion had not handled the damp, mould and snagging issues appropriately even though the builder, Dandara, would still have been responsible during the defect period.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
When she was five months pregnant, ultrasound examinations revealed that the fetus had a cleft palate, a brain cyst, and heart defects.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Together, the patient genetics and experimental findings pointed to the primary cilium as an important part of the process that may contribute to congenital heart defects.
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
After the initial excitement, they soon started to find defects and decided to hire the snagger.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The children she saw had all kinds of articulation problems, some because of physiological defects like cleft palates or tied tongues.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
Sarah Cooper-Lesadd, one of 34 Reform MSs elected in May's Senedd election, defected to Plaid on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 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
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
My mother embraced Edward after he defected from Dauntless.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
"That's not going to appeal to waverers, or to moderate conservatives who might be thinking about defecting."
From BBC ● Sep. 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
PDD had previously cautioned that its financial performance could fluctuate as it strengthens its e-commerce ecosystem and rolls out more support initiatives to keep merchants from defecting to other platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
The defecting lawmakers are making it heard that their decision wasn’t taken lightly.
From Salon ● Jan. 9, 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
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