defect
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Iranian authorities however alleged that Australia sought to force the athletes to defect.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
Further experiments with collaborators in Copenhagen showed that the PAM defect does not affect how GLP-1 binds to its receptor or how signals are transmitted.
From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026
But he seemed unwilling to transform that imperfection into a constitutional defect in which counsel, in his view, still had “every opportunity” to make the point and did not.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026
Mr. Rodríguez Castro, known as “El Cangrejo”—the crab—because of a birth defect, never finished school.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
Emma’s finger brushed a tiny button that looked like nothing more than a small defect in the wood.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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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