defective

Example Sentences

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At least 12 people have died in crashes involving vehicles that were recalled between 2015 and 2024 due to defective air bags but hadn’t yet been repaired, The Wall Street Journal reported this month.

From The Wall Street Journal

He said: "The department's debt is very large indeed and it is a debt which has been incurred through the supply of defective equipment at a time of national crisis."

From BBC

“They’ve made no showing for why the agreement was defective or why anything else was needed to ensure compliance going forward.”

From Salon

Humberside Police said officers had noticed a vehicle with a defective rear brake light at about 20:25 GMT.

From BBC

These tools enabled them to examine the atomic structure of the defective graphene, confirm the presence of the engineered defects and determine how they influenced the material's chemical and electronic behavior.

From Science Daily