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The trick was to drain it of everything that makes a tort a tort: no defect, no fault, often no real proof that this defendant caused the alleged harm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

He later was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect but eventually was able to resume his basketball career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Jolie’s mother had breast cancer and died of ovarian cancer, and her aunt, who had the same BRCA1 gene defect as Jolie, died of breast cancer three months after Jolie’s operation.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

"Our results suggest that altered metabolism is a significant contributor to Alzheimer's progression and, in addition, addressing the metabolic defect could be an important complement to approaches focused on Alzheimer's plaques and tangles," Sun said.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 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

"It is the first time we know the exact number of Laron syndrome patients and the many variants of the growth hormone receptor defects," he tells BBC Mundo.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Next, the researchers plan to study more realistic environments that include defects and edges commonly found in practical materials.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026

"Other schedule risks remain, including the detailed designs for the aircraft interiors, fabrication of the wire bundles, and rework to correct defects in structural modifications," the report said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

Factors include “older buildings that do not meet modern seismic standards, as well as hidden defects or structural vulnerabilities,” De Santis said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026

As an inventor, he had, obviously, at last, rid the Machine of all defects.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

But last week, the replies were inundated with complaints that Letterboxd had defected to the corporate dark side, along with fearful pleas for the platform’s owners to reconsider.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

In the past year, at least three soldiers have defected across the DMZ, which is around 2 miles wide and 150 miles long.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

It was in 1990, while touring Europe with his hero Gillespie, that Sandoval finally defected from Cuba with his wife and son — and found the refuge he’d been seeking in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Another senior RSF commander, al-Nour al-Guba, defected late last month and was received in Khartoum by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

The following morning, more than 650 Woodhull supporters—including several dozen women who defected from Anthony’s suffrage convention—showed up at Apollo Hall.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

The defecting lawmakers are making it heard that their decision wasn’t taken lightly.

From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2026

Mr. Pence and his board have set a target of $15 million from donors to finance the defecting analysts for three years, and as of Friday we hear they had raised more than $13 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

It’s good for firms to have a healthy fear of their users defecting somewhere else.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025

One radio colleague branded her a traitor for defecting to television.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025

He said that any defecting official betrayed both himself and his position as a leader and examplefor other Muslims.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey