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How to use the word defects in a Sentence?

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This process can be triggered by a battery overheating, being punctured, or an electrical fault like a short circuit, in cases where fires occur spontaneously while charging, it is likely due to manufacturing defects.

Dylan Khoo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Lithium batteries are generally safe and unlikely to fail, but only so long as there are no defects and the batteries are not damaged or mistreated, the more batteries that surround us the more incidents we will see.

Steve Kerber

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The complexity comes from the fact that he had both soft tissue wounds as well as bone defects or missing bone from the blast injuries and the multiple fractures in each of the feet.

Duretti Fufa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Vehicle Safety Act prohibits manufacturers from selling vehicles with defects posing unreasonable risks to safety, including intentional design choices that are unsafe. If the information shows that a safety risk may exist, NHTSA will act immediately.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Drugs and alcohol are not the problems, they’re merely symptoms of the problem. And once those things go away, the real work begins, you know … working on all the character defects, the moral compass — the skewed moral compass.

Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In this last stage of the state of emergency, we have to ratify all the good that we have done, which is enough, and to correct the defects.

President Martin Vizcarra

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

Jules Renard

added by anonymous
4 years ago

In addition to those fundamental legal defects, the State undeniably failed to prove its case.

Johnson Johnson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

John Adams

added by Normando
4 years ago

In addition to those fundamental legal defects, The State undeniably failed to prove its case.

Johnson Johnson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If someone is on more than one seizure medicine, the risk of birth defects increases.

David Ficker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have a choice to make now, and that means choosing between options that actually exist, it is very painful to vote for this deal. But I hope we can now work together to remedy its defects.

Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Sperm DNA from obese or marijuana-exposed animal models and men demonstrate alterations that are transferred to the progeny and can result in increased risk for cancer, effects on behavior, birth defects and overall long-term health repercussions, men need to appreciate that their lifestyle behaviors may not only affect their ability to initiate a healthy pregnancy but, just as importantly, affect the future well-being of their child -- something that has clear lifelong repercussions and that should be seriously considered prior to initialing fatherhood.

Natan Bar-Chama

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Almost everything I am aware of is single gene edit defects, which ultimately leads you to pretty ultra-rare conditions, which are not our area of interest.

Lilly Chief Executive Dave Ricks

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I accept full responsibility for my conduct. I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse, i entered intensive treatment, found the courage to take a moral inventory of my defects, and began a program of recovery and mental health treatment that I continue to follow every day.

Anthony Weiner

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse, i entered intensive treatment, found the courage to take a moral inventory of my defects, and began a program of recovery and mental health treatment that I continue to follow every day.

Anthony Weiner

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We've always known that black women have more aggressive breast cancer and do more poorly, the challenge has always been what is causing it or what is the molecular or gene defects we are looking for.

Lisa Richardson

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It is becoming increasingly clear that this virus can cause a wide range of other abnormalities including visual and hearing defects and brain damage in babies with normal sized heads.

Jimmy Whitworth

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Enbridge's actions leading up to the spill were deplorable: federal investigators found that Enbridge's integrity management procedures were so deficient that Enbridge allowed well-documented crack defects in corroded areas to propagate until the pipeline failed.

Peter DeFazio

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Even though the study found differences in risk of birth defects, it should be remembered that overall prevalence of these defects is low, the vast majority of babies born from ART were normal.

Judy Stern

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Until a few months ago, no one had any idea that Zika could cause birth defects.

Thomas Frieden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If we don't get funding until after we see transmission in the United States, until after we see children born with birth defects, then we're well behind the curve.

Amy Pope

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Now that all these birth defects and associated conditions have come out, Zika is turning into a game-changer, having such an impact on a crucial aspect of human reproduction is actually changing the whole paradigm.

Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The court is ordering Apple to create a backdoor into an iPhone’s operating system, citing a law adopted in 1789, if the order stands, Apple and other technology companies could be ordered to build backdoors – essentially defects – into other devices, rendering them insecure and vulnerable to attack by law enforcement and by others as well. We will fight against this result.

Greg Nojeim

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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