defective
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Gruffydd Williams said: "The council should apologise profusely... for the losses they have caused by presenting defective papers to the cabinet."
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Keith Jarrett improvised his celebrated 1975 live album, “The Köln Concert,” on a defective piano.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
In her vision, Warhol’s Factory is a literal assembly line, where actors and artists come to be molded and assembled into products, only to be cast out when they’re deemed defective.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
It does not, on its face, shield these corporations from suit as the creators of a defective product that negligently serves users this speech in harmful ways.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
But Ebright, reacting to rumors his father had heard, had come to suspect that Pocock was sending him second-rate or defective equipment in order to hobble Washington’s principal rival.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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