defective

Example Sentences

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However, this case argues that the firms are responsible for defective products with business models designed to hold people's attention and to promote content that can harm their mental health.

From Barron's

But do feel free to give the company a reasonable suggestion of what you consider proper restitution — say, a full replacement for a defective product.

From MarketWatch

“It sounds to me like there was something defective with the weapon,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

In excerpted quotes from Schwank’s prepared testimony shared with The Times, he calls the training program “deficient, defective and broken.”

From Los Angeles Times

This tension, he said, was compounded by subsequent U.S. intelligence reports alleging that widespread corruption had rendered some of these missiles nonfunctional—including claims of defective silo lids.

From The Wall Street Journal