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Recent Examples of deformity Morrison also injured her hip and shoulder, according to Kruse, but the fracture brought on a spinal deformity and chronic pain. Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025 He wouldn’t be discharged until Christmastime, walked with a limp for months after that, and would struggle with his fresh physical deformities for years. Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 27 Apr. 2025 Nonprofit offers free medical screenings for kids in need Fresh Start Surgical Gifts, a nonprofit that helps children with physical deformities get reconstructive surgery, will provide free medical screenings for underserved children in need. Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025 The 5-year-old, who was born with an ear deformity and cannot verbally communicate, misses his father and has been extremely distressed since his arrest, said Lucia Curiel, one of the family’s lawyers. Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for deformity
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Noun
  • What a buyer might find as a major defect could be different than what a seller finds as one.
    Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2025
  • Operational Efficiency And Cost Reduction Beyond core back-office tasks, AI bots are streamlining operations across industries: • Manufacturing: A process-mining AI tool helped one leading manufacturer automate quality-check handoffs, cutting defect investigation time by 60%.
    Leonard Martin Schmedding, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Ideally in places where there’s room to breathe and with a little more concern for animals, the environment and those who bear the psychological scars of service.
    Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 June 2025
  • Sudan’s children are living through the world’s largest displacement crisis Since the surge of violence in Sudan in late April 2025, thousands of families have crossed the border into Chad on a daily basis, traumatized and burdened by the scars of war.
    Brice Kevin Da, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Their backs are a mixture of cream dots, orange-ish speckles and brown blotches.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 2 June 2025
  • These are more typically animals with stripes instead of blotches, missing patterns, and similar.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 16 May 2025

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“Deformity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deformity. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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