blame
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The blame for any harm the technology inflicts should lay with its creators.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
“You can’t blame Amazon for delivering a package that you ordered.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Most of the blame for that lies at the feet of the 9/11 terrorists and those who supported and financed them.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
"He recognises he is entirely to blame for his predicament," he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
He couldn’t blame her; she’d wanted a bit of peace and quiet and here they were having a whole conversation over her head.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
The comments came after Ukraine filed a formal notice to the United Nations body of the threats posed to civilian aircraft from its munitions—a risk Kyiv blames on Russia’s refusal to take adequate safety measures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
He isn’t taking personal accountability, but he’s accepting the NBA’s $700,000 fine and, in a statement, said he blames “lapses in judgment by people within my inner circle.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
She blames us — and her biological brother — for everything bad that happened to her.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
The father of a teenager from Guinea with sickle cell disease who died days after he was arrested for cheating in an exam has told the BBC he blames the authorities for his death.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Whenever anything happens that she cannot explain or understand she blames it on supernatural powers.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
But at what point should they be blamed for booting them up?
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
In commentary recently shared with MarketWatch, Nomura’s Charlie McElligott blamed Wall Street’s current “low-enthusiasm, low-positioning dynamic” on what he called a “negative risk trinity.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
"Students are often unfairly blamed for the housing situation, when evidence shows it is a much more complex picture."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Others said Becerra cannot be blamed for doing his job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
In their report, the doctors blamed Garfield's death on the bursting of this sac.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
“And now he’s in court blaming his team,” Morse said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
The former leader quit the helm with two years left of his second term in 2005, blaming poor health.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Yet authorities have historically avoided blaming industrial actors for causing large-scale fires.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
There has even been a surge of conspiracy theories blaming Patrick Clancy, Lindsay’s ex-husband and father to the deceased children, for the killings.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
All along I had been blaming Trotter, but the more I thought about it, the more I had to admit that it really was my fault, too, for going along with him.
From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold
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