defective
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Huawei’s factories are estimated to produce usable chips only about 20% of the time, Goodrich said—meaning four out of every five come out defective.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
In her vision, Warhol’s Factory is a literal assembly line, where actors and artists come to be molded and assembled into products, only to be cast out when they’re deemed defective.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
Reading a summary of their ruling, judges said the jurors at trial had "not been properly directed" and the directions given to them on how to reach a verdict were "defective".
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Most alarmingly, courts have wielded the statute to crush lawsuits that accuse social media companies of negligently providing a defective product.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
“Our trip was between a mental hospital on the East Coast and here. We’re all schizophrenic, with defective emotional lives—flattening of affect, it’s called. And we have group hallucinations.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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