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
Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2025
Democrats are three members short of being able to deny House Republicans quorum to temporarily halt possible legislation in the Hoosier State, though the party could also work together with Republicans who defect from their party over the redistricting issue.
—Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 7 Sep. 2025
New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Nick would reject entire batches for defects that seemed minor, causing delays and waste.
—Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Hannan, as a member of the Conservative Party, is not planning to defect any time soon.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2025
Democrats are three members short of being able to deny House Republicans quorum to temporarily halt possible legislation in the Hoosier State, though the party could also work together with Republicans who defect from their party over the redistricting issue.
—Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
The lawsuits focus on aircraft defects, not on the airline, Jeju Air.
—New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Nick would reject entire batches for defects that seemed minor, causing delays and waste.
—Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defect
Noun
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The scars are beautiful and almost aerodynamic.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Oct. 2025
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The twist, so to speak, in Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han’s feature debut, is that the child in question is a Belgian girl growing up in rural Japan in the 1960s — a place filled with countless natural wonders, but also marked by the scars of a major war that haven’t quite healed.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Amid this Iranian diaspora, many of these people emigrated to Los Angeles, with some of them being the same people who had contributed to pre-revolution Iran’s golden age of entertainment.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
17 Oct. 2025
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Her Filipino parents emigrated from big-city Manila to this tiny farming community of 2,000 people in the 1970s, when her father, a surgeon, was recruited to work there.—
NPR,
NPR,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Dark brown blotches of varying sizes dot their sides and back.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
7 Oct. 2025
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This fungal disease appears as gray blotches on the bark, eventually developing into sunken cankers.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 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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Her trauma is not your fault or responsibility.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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These are real kids, caught in difficult circumstances and are in the foster care system through no fault of their own.—
Laura Rivera,
Denver Post,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Based on Swift's blunt response, don't expect the Grammy-winning musician to follow in the footsteps any time soon of other celebrities like Katy Perry and William Shatner who have voyaged beyond Earth's atmosphere.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
7 Oct. 2025
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And with her last-day outfit ready to go, she gets set to voyage home feeling centered, not chaotic.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Southern Living,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Food and Drug Administration previously warned consumers about the potential for severe infections and skin deformities from unauthorized shots touted to dissolve fat at med spas.—
Erika Edwards,
NBC news,
6 Oct. 2025
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According to court documents, responding firefighters at the shooting scene identified gunshot wounds to Barron on the center of his chest, both of his arms, his left leg beneath the knee, his buttocks, and a deformity below his right knee, above his lower left leg below the knee.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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There is trash and pollutants from the tourists and gravel has been mined from the area to make trekking routes for people, disturbing the places where females may have laid their eggs, researchers said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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Black Diamond Pursuit Carbon Z Trekking Poles Over rocks and steep gravel and through the edelweiss, these trekking poles were there for me.—
Anna Fiorentino,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Defect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defect. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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