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
Maneesh Sharma, Forbes.com, 27 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
Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
In aged cheeses, sometimes pink coloring can be caused by a microbial defect.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Testing Tools Can't Keep Up With AI Complexity This approach can provide you with measurable test results, clear defect reports and legal safety.
—Maneesh Sharma, Forbes.com, 27 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
Hall had surgery in January 2024 to address a cartilage defect in her knee.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
In aged cheeses, sometimes pink coloring can be caused by a microbial defect.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 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,
1 Oct. 2025
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Slow-moving thunderstorms frequently unleash catastrophic downpours over the South Fork burn scar, a region still reeling from two fires that scorched over 15,000 acres and destroyed 1,400 structures.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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At the age of 4, her family emigrated from Russia to Carmel, New Jersey.—
Menika Dirkson,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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Rosales emigrated with her mother, aunt and uncle to Machala, a city in the southwest part of the country and the capital of El Oro province, which earned its name for large gold deposits and today is one of the world’s largest banana exporters.—
Sarah Moreno,
Miami Herald,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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The belly is tan or gray with dark blotches.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
17 Sep. 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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Only one drive on Monday even crossed into Denver territory, even if that wasn’t all his fault.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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None were definitively the fault of Waymo’s actual self-driving technology.—
Saahil Desai,
The Atlantic,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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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
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Born around 1755 into a vast web of royal lineage that stretched across Hawaii, he was connected to nearly every major ruling family of his time and became the first Hawaiian chief to voyage beyond the islands.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Verb
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First by shadowing a refugee smuggler and some refugees preparing to trek through the treacherous Darién Gap rainforest.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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Mark’s work has taken him trekking in the Papua Highlands, ice climbing in the Canadian Rockies, and scuba diving in Maldivian, Caribbean, and Australian reefs.—
Mark Johanson,
Outside,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Defect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defect. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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