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Denver is coming off a victory over the Las Vegas Raiders on Thursday, but the game was about as pretty as a cleft palate.—Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025 He’s also funded 2,000 prosthetics, 100 cleft palate repairs, and 600 e-bikes for people in need.—Preston Fore, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2025 Two-month-old Onyxx Cooley was born with a cleft palate but apparently otherwise healthy.—Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 26 Aug. 2025 Mary! Fun fact about this sweet girl: She was born with a cleft palate.—Trish Stinger, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for cleft palate
: a split in the roof of the mouth that occurs as a birth defect
Medical Definition
cleft palate
noun
: congenital fissure of the roof of the mouth produced by failure of the two maxillae to unite during embryonic development and often associated with cleft lip
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