as in defective
having a fault
a flawed paint job that resulted in some peeling almost as soon as the paint had dried
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as in damaged
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of
that crack has flawed the vase to the extent that its value in the antiques market is greatly reduced
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Recent Examples of flawed
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
21 June 2026
Readers were presented with a lengthy retelling of a sole critic who argues that blue zones are built on flawed demographic assumptions, questionable age validation, and statistical anomalies.
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Torie Bosch,
STAT,
20 June 2026
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
Black women get to be flawed in this world.
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Candice Frederick,
HollywoodReporter,
1 June 2026
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Adjective
The Mets might be talented, as Mendoza said, but a flawed roster and a lack of execution have them in last place in the NL East.
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Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
21 June 2026
Readers were presented with a lengthy retelling of a sole critic who argues that blue zones are built on flawed demographic assumptions, questionable age validation, and statistical anomalies.
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Torie Bosch,
STAT,
20 June 2026
Verb
His lawsuit, filed May 27, alleges his June 1991 death sentence was flawed from the start after nine Black people were kept from serving on the jury.
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Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
Black women get to be flawed in this world.
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Candice Frederick,
HollywoodReporter,
1 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flawed
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Boasberg issued a temporary restraining order and ordered that the planes be turned around, but Justice Department attorneys said his oral instructions directing the flight to be returned were defective, and the deportations proceeded as planned.
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For generations, Americans have debated consumer protection through the lens of defective products, predatory lenders, unsafe food, and identity theft.
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Joshua Serad, of Maple Shade, stole and damaged Pride flags Monday in the business district of Haddonfield on Kings Highway, according to police.
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Flying bricks damaged the crossing’s signal arms, and the crossing was closed by Union Pacific.
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Although such tallies are imperfect, there is legitimate concern that this summer could be particularly lethal.
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An uncomfortable investment can rise sharply while the business remains imperfect.
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Starmer is leaving after two years in office marred by missteps and judgment errors that eroded his standing with his party and the public.
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What immediately followed that bright June day were dark months marred by the state’s largest criminal investigation in history coming up empty, police questioning second graders for new leads and mounting legal battles among the Horman family grappling with utter devastation.
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In two randomized trials conducted by Stanford economist Nick Bloom, for example, workers reported improved mental health, not worse.
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Heavy rain was bad enough, but lightning in the area is, obviously, nothing to be trifled with.
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Blyth injured her back in a toboggan accident and spent over a year recovering, limiting her ability to profit off her success in the film.
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The officer returned fire; neither the suspect nor the officer was injured.
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The board’s vote for a rent freeze is likely to bring lawsuits from landlord groups, who have already asserted that Mamdani has compromised the independent board.
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Identity resilience means your identity system can withstand attacks and keep operating even when parts of your infrastructure are compromised.
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This comes at a dire time for Venezuela, which is still deep in political and financial crisis – being led by an interim government after US forces captured President Nicolás Maduro earlier this year, and facing an economy crippled by years of hyperinflation.
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Aegon, who was burned and crippled in Season 2, fled with Larys Strong (Matthew Needham), leaving his cruel, one-eyed brother Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) to sit on the Iron Throne.
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