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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
defect .
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Examples
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Charlie Crist, who last week defected from the GOP to run as an Independent.
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He said he had defected from the military after working in factories built to develop weapons of mass destruction.
Burma’s Military Trying to Make a Nuclear Bomb | Impact Lab 2010
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The cascade of revelations that revved up HUAC in earnest really began with Elizabeth Bentley, who defected from the CP in 1945.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School 2010
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“People here are perplexed and wondering why Canada is rolling back the clock and depriving women in developing countries from having the same rights to basic health care and access to abortion as women in Canada,” said Keith Martin, a Liberal MP who defected from the Tories in 2004.
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Kenney defected from the Liberals to the Reform Party of Canada, a group that suggested in their 1990 Bluebook, Principles and Policies, that any immigration that altered the ethnic make-up of Canada should be rejected.
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Richardson has probably put the screws to this guy, that's why he defected from the voters choice in his state.
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But one week, after a speech on redistribution of wealth, he defected from the Party -- and his employer asked him the reason for his change of heart.
The F-Team 2008
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In 2000, he defected from the Russian SVR, successor to the soviet KGB, and moved to America where he consulted for the CIA and FBI.
Friday Daily Goodbye 2010
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• Linebacker Kawika Mitchell, who defected from the champion New York Giants and will likely take over on the weak side.
Bills defense gets a makeover after lackluster showing in 2007 2008
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In 1999, Vautour defected from the NDP to the Progressive Conservative caucus.
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