fault
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Fault tolerance describes a system’s ability to operate normally even when its individual components fail or experience disruption.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
From “The Fault Lies in R-Star and in Ourselves,” Sept, 26, 2018:
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
To the south, the Pacific and North American plates grind past each other along the San Andreas Fault, occasionally producing devastating earthquakes such as the 1906 San Francisco event.
From Science Daily • Oct. 22, 2025
The city lies just 20km to the north of the North Anatolian Fault Line.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2025
Fault was found with my reading and writing; it was claimed that I was swelling the electric bill.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing fault
The Smashing Lexicon of Tennis
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