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fault

[fawlt] / fɔlt /




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Still, you can’t fault the Modi government for lack of ambition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

This behavior is part of a built-in safety system known as fault protection.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

When the sentence was announced, the man said in Arabic: "I went to Syria, but it was my mother who chose for me. What is my fault?"

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

"You can't help but think that it's your fault."

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

"Let's say no more. If you are a bad governor, it will be your fault, but the shame will be mine."

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

During this period there have been clear vulnerabilities with her game, with opponents learning they could take advantage of a slow second serve that tended to produce double faults.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

He faults the doomers for having “managed to make the debate between safe and unsafe,” and he maintains that “a lot of their proposals are extraordinarily unsafe or also dangerous in other ways.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Even when faults are highly stressed, scientists cannot use that information to determine exactly when a rupture will occur.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

All the recent L.A. mayors I’ve known had their faults and failures, whether the task was filling potholes, building out transit or addressing the high cost of housing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Turning the wheel slowly with his knee, he inspected the graceful shape for invisible faults.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

But since it became operational, critics have faulted both meager pledges from rich nations -- $822 million to date -- and a disbursement cycle disconnected from climate disasters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

But bureau employees have faulted Patel for how he’s handled it.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026

Inflation watchers in the private sector said the BEA move was justified, but they faulted the agency for not giving the public a heads up, even for such a nerdy statistical thing.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Guerra said while Bass can do much of her job from another city for a day, a mayor is often faulted for not being front and center during an emergency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

Always she had faulted Helen for caring so about looks.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Because SMRs form through the same type of faulting, moonquakes may also occur across the lunar maria wherever these ridges exist.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026

Blaming hip hop for these realities is like faulting a photograph for its subject matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

"We are faulting them for designing their platforms to addict kids and for developing algorithms that show kids not what they want to see but what they cannot look away from."

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

Entering the shutdown, polls indicated the country was split over who would be to blame, with 19% of Americans faulting Democrats and 26% charging Republicans, according to a New York Times poll.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

In the whole of this northern region faulting, as distinct from folding, seems to have played an important part.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various


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