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defector

[dih-fek-ter] / dɪˈfɛk tər /


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Former Labour MP and Brexit campaigner Baroness Kate Hoey, who has sat as a non-affiliated peer since 2020, is among those rumoured to be a possible defector.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2026

He told me they had welcomed a former Green councillor this week and would unveil a Labour defector next week.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

During the interview, the pair also pleaded to be sent to the South, according to GNU chief Jang Se-yul, himself a North Korean defector who fled the isolated country in the 2000s.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

Dick’s characters appear and disappear amid a nearly incomprehensible plot about a Nazi defector who tries to warn the Japanese of an impending German attack.

From Salon • May 17, 2025

They sometimes worked on the installment plan, taking little or no money up front from a defector or his family.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden




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