DEFECTS (FROM) Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

defects (from)

verb

present tense third-person singular of defect (from)

as in deserts

to leave (a cause or party) often in order to take up another soldiers defected from the rebel army en masse as the failure of their cause became apparent

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And a $208 million Rural Health Transformation award now lets Arkansas confront the maternity care deserts the national conversation overlooks—because when the nearest delivery unit is an hour away, distance itself is a risk factor.

— John Boozman, Time, 23 June 2026
Set against the backdrop of Burns’ native city of Liverpool, the drama revolves around a 17-year-old soldier who deserts his post during the Iraq war.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 19 May 2026

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DeVoto persuades an editor at Houghton Mifflin to offer them a contract; when Houghton Mifflin eventually rejects the manuscript, DeVoto gets Knopf interested.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
Israel rejects that position, saying the West Bank is disputed territory where there has been a Jewish presence for thousands of years.

— Rami Ayyub, USA Today, 11 July 2026

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Watch On After losing their son, Gaku (Kengo Kora), in battle, the Tawara family blends back into modern Japanese life and abandons their nights-and-weekends ninja mayhem.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 10 July 2026
In Red Sheet, which is set, like most of his novels, in mid-century Los Angeles, Ellroy abandons the three-character structure in favor of a single narrative voice that clamps down hard.

— Carolyn Kellogg, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

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