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It assembled a team of engineers, defect investigators and lawyers to determine how to wield a seldom-used enforcement power to ban the dangerous parts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Jolie’s mother had breast cancer and died of ovarian cancer, and her aunt, who had the same BRCA1 gene defect as Jolie, died of breast cancer three months after Jolie’s operation.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

"Our results suggest that altered metabolism is a significant contributor to Alzheimer's progression and, in addition, addressing the metabolic defect could be an important complement to approaches focused on Alzheimer's plaques and tangles," Sun said.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026

The defect was traced back to supplier production quality and to Boeing’s inability to catch it.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

I’m always going to be the sister of a kid with a birth defect: that’s not the issue.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio

"It is the first time we know the exact number of Laron syndrome patients and the many variants of the growth hormone receptor defects," he tells BBC Mundo.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

These medicines work by taking advantage of defects in the way certain cancer cells repair damaged DNA.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

"Other schedule risks remain, including the detailed designs for the aircraft interiors, fabrication of the wire bundles, and rework to correct defects in structural modifications," the report said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

Reebelo also offers 12-month vendor warranties with coverage for some software and hardware defects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

Nervous to the point of nausea before addressing an audience, Churchill consulted specialists as a young man in the hopes of ridding himself of his speech defects.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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

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

Another senior RSF commander, al-Nour al-Guba, defected late last month and was received in Khartoum by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

One North Korean, who defected while studying in Poland in 1989, put it more succinctly: “When I was in North Korea, I thought Kim Il Sung was God.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 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

It started with Navratilova, a record nine-time singles champion at the All England Club, who remained an inspiration to those back in her homeland after defecting from communist Czechoslovakia to the United States in 1975.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2026

Suddenly, Golding had to do more than scramble to hire new staff, keep recruits from defecting, and convince players not to transfer to other schools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 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