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defect
noun as in blemish, imperfection
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verb as in break from belief, faith
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Fujitsu executives have apologised for the company's role in the scandal, admitting that Horizon had bugs errors and defects from the start.
They’re required to check the underside of the pumpkin for defects, a task Hernandez jokes could land him in the news.
Interestingly, although the mice carrying the mutation did not display outward physical symptoms, their nerve cells showed the same internal cellular defects seen in the patients' cells.
The center had been diagnosed with a genetic defect in 2006 that led to chronic kidney disease.
This means a single retron "package" can potentially correct many mutations within the same stretch of DNA, rather than targeting one specific defect at a time.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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