defected (from)

past tense of defect (from)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defected (from)
Verb
  • Advertisement Advertisement The numbers are catching up to a story being told by locals and visitors for several months now, of an eerily empty Vegas Strip and deserted casino floors.
    Solcyré Burga, Time, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Several Cuban doctors who deserted the mission sued PAHO, claiming the organization benefited from a labor-trafficking scheme in which the Cuban government pocketed about 85 percent of the salary payments made by Brazil.
    Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Before 2014, the building was abandoned and MIA wanted to tear it down.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Drummond is blamed for the deaths of the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home's front yard in rural west Tennessee.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The club rejected her for lack of record.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Combine uneven play with 11 penalties and that’s a cocktail even the Florida student section nauseously rejected.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Defected (from).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defected%20%28from%29. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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