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defected

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past tense of defect

as in emigrated

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My mother was born to parents who emigrated in the 1950s during Batista’s regime.

— Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
In 1944, a few weeks after the liberation of France, Georges Zurabishvili, who had emigrated to France from Georgia in the 1920s, was bundled into a car by three men with machine guns.

— Tobias Grey, Air Mail, 10 Oct. 2026

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Others drew attention to the fact that Mavica had personally toured Vladimir Putin around the cultural complex, whose official reasoning was that the V-A-C’s Venice space required greater attention ahead of the 2022 Biennale.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
On Friday, Marshall toured a radar manufacturing plant with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

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Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1873, Lowe journeyed to China for his education, and then returned to America, moving between major western cities, first San Francisco, then Denver, on to Portland and Seattle.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
The videos quickly went viral, with lines forming outside the hut as people journeyed to the site, eager to try one for themselves.

— Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

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