defect
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A notice from the company described the cause of the problem as a "packaging defect".
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
The defect was traced back to supplier production quality and to Boeing’s inability to catch it.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
“It takes so much to litigate a construction defect, you spend more than you do to build a house,” Scherer said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
The former five-star recruit out of Sierra Canyon High is still growing into his career, especially after surgery for a congenital heart defect derailed his brief college experience.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026
A rough, cold android, hoping to undergo an experience from which, due to a deliberately built-in defect, it remained excluded.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing defect
Tuesdays with Morrie
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The Glass Menagerie
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Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801)
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