as in scar
something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing
the statue has a slight defect on the base, so it's being sold at a discount
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Recent Examples of defect
Kif Leswing, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2025
In the late 1930s, editor-publisher Billy Wilkerson offered him the editorship of The Hollywood Reporter, but Sullivan was too ur-New York to defect to the left coast.
—Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Turner syndrome can cause a variety of medical and developmental problems, including short height, failure of the ovaries to develop and heart defects.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
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Noun
But many analysts say that Apple’s brand loyalty and lock-in will give it a period of years before iPhone customers start defecting for competitors.
—Kif Leswing, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2025
In the late 1930s, editor-publisher Billy Wilkerson offered him the editorship of The Hollywood Reporter, but Sullivan was too ur-New York to defect to the left coast.
—Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
This high-temperature approach works to create dense, defect-free ceramic separators that can block dendrite formation while maintaining high ionic conductivity.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Turner syndrome can cause a variety of medical and developmental problems, including short height, failure of the ovaries to develop and heart defects.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defect
Noun
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That trade leaves a scar for some fans even a half-century later.—
Hannah Kirby,
jsonline.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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That creates a scar that probably never completely heals.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Her dad had emigrated from Argentina and worked as an accountant.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
16 Sep. 2025
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The purges drove an exodus of research talent, with figures like Einstein, Bethe, and Krebs emigrating to the UK and, mostly, the US.—
Scott Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Gopher snakes tend to be tan-colored with large square brown blotches or saddles along their backs and smaller gray spots on their sides.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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The baby was purple-gray-colored, in blotches; wet, smeared in blood and what looked like whitish wax.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 July 2025
Verb
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Advertisement Travel to the country once limited essentially to pilgrimage and business travel, opened with a tourist e-visa in 2019 and has since become an engine of jobs and investment.—
Ali Shihabi,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
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Next year will mark the culmination of its Jubilee Year celebrations, and through January, the city will continue to host pilgrimage events, public art installations, and expanded museum programming.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The characters’ faults, however, lie not in their stars but in themselves.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Sep. 2025
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In her comments, many agreed that OP was not at fault.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Join Uniworld’s 12-night India’s Golden Triangle & The Sacred Ganges voyage from New Delhi to Kolkata, from $5,879 per person including all meals, unlimited beverages (including fine wines & spirits), daily excursions, airport transfers, and WiFi.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Tristan told stories about the sea, voyages around the Cape of Good Hope, where the waves were high as houses.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2025
Noun
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Services cover conditions such as brain tumors, spine deformities, and chronic neck and back pain.—
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Sep. 2025
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These imaging scans help provide a better look at the bones to detect fractures, bone deformities, infections, and abnormalities like tumors.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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These proclaimed the Midpeninsula Wine Trail an easy way to get your wine fix without trekking to Wine Country.—
Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
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The common consensus is that some of the earliest Homo sapiens trekked thousands of miles from Africa and across the Middle East before reaching the Balkans.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Defect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defect. Accessed 23 Sep. 2025.
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