defection

Example Sentences

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The defection of these voters from Trump, along with his preferred candidates and causes, has resulted in three consecutive disappointing election cycles for the party.

From Seattle Times

If Democrats’ margin had shrunk, one or two defections might have enabled Youngkin to revive his priorities in the veto session.

From Washington Post

New Mexico 1st Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said during a Monday hearing that she is struggling to shore up an office plagued by attorney defections and vacancies.

From Los Angeles Times

The defections could endanger the ability of Netanyahu’s coalition of ultra-Orthodox and right-wing nationalist parties, which hold only a four-seat majority in the parliament, to ram through the package of legislation.

From Washington Post

The defection by the “traitorous eight,” as the group came to be called, planted the seeds for Silicon Valley’s renegade culture, in which engineers who disagreed with their colleagues didn’t hesitate to become competitors.

From Seattle Times