defect

A defect was found on railway tracks in East Sussex at the site where a train derailed leaving 30 injured, a report says.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect, affecting about 1 in 100 babies born each year.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

I was born with a heart defect, so I see a cardiologist every year to check up on it.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

The trick was to drain it of everything that makes a tort a tort: no defect, no fault, often no real proof that this defendant caused the alleged harm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Her defect, frightening and exotic as it was, was also a theatrical failure.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Home inspectors don’t open up walls and remove flooring to check for hidden defects in a home, he noted.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Within weeks of the renovation’s completion, numerous defects were spotted, with a liner installed on the bottom of the pool peeling in various places, and algae again infesting the water.

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026

That reevaluation identified a potential association between paraquat exposure and thyroid impacts and birth defects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The findings suggest that additive manufacturing can produce cemented carbide molds without major defects, although the results differed depending on the fabrication arrangement.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

As she grew up, a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects; and when she left school, I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile, good-tempered, and well-principled.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

But last week, the replies were inundated with complaints that Letterboxd had defected to the corporate dark side, along with fearful pleas for the platform’s owners to reconsider.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

Jenrick is now a Reform MP, having defected from the Conservatives to Nigel Farage's party earlier this year.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

It was in 1990, while touring Europe with his hero Gillespie, that Sandoval finally defected from Cuba with his wife and son — and found the refuge he’d been seeking in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

The U.S. auto industry faces sobering new math: Some one million prospective buyers have defected from the new-car market since the start of the decade—and they aren’t expected back soon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Philby had not yet been revealed as a Soviet spy, but two of his colleagues, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, had just defected to the Soviet Union.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

At the dinner, I tried to get a sense if there were more women like Smith—sweet, older Christian Alabamians—snapping and defecting to the left.

From Slate ● May 4, 2026

He said: "It would have been obvious to him from the moment of defecting that continued occupation would be unsustainable."

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

The defecting lawmakers are making it heard that their decision wasn’t taken lightly.

From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2026

These two generations have been defecting from the primary market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025

He had even earned a medal, presented by Najibullah himself, before defecting once again and returning to the Mujahideen’s side.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini