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  • Defect is a word that has connotations to traitorous actions, where in fact no such traitorous actions are apparent.

    Obama closes in on Clinton superdelegate total 2008

  • KATE JACKSON, ACTRESS: I had an ASD, an Atrial Septal Defect, which is a hole in my heart and ...

    CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2006 2006

  • KATE JACKSON, ACTRESS: I had an ASD, an Atrial Septal Defect, which is a hole in my heart and ...

    CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2006 2006

  • The 41-minute The Defect is a significant early feature just by its existence; this is the same year D.W. Griffith made the first American two-reeler,

    PopMatters Michael Barrett 2010

  • In Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "Defect," the protagonist is a government operative on the run who finds that to be a task not so easily accomplished.

    REVIEW: The New Space Opera 2 edited by Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan 2009

  • In Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "Defect," the protagonist is a government operative on the run who finds that to be a task not so easily accomplished.

    SF Signal 2009

  • Defect density analysis is an established software engineering technique for studying software quality.

    2009 November 15 | Serendipity 2009

  • Also, the headline — Afghanistan Supply Base May Defect to Russia — is pure genius, courtesy of Laura McGann.

    Rejected | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • For one hundred generations or so, the Always Defect strategy dominated our tournament.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • Defect density analysis is an established software engineering technique for studying software quality.

    2009 November | Serendipity 2009

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