fault
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"I understand there needs to be changes because the prisons are full to capacity. But that's not the victims' fault," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Driver said the accident wasn’t their fault, and that they were cruising down a country road in the middle of France when another vehicle failed to stop at an intersection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Only after that did Pirro bother to review the evidence and conclude the renovation was at fault.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
“I can’t fault people from wanting to graduate early — I mean, I did it myself,” Erle said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
“That was our fault, mine and Rowdy’s. They thought we were going to hurt them. That’s why they bit us.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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I had my notebook open beside me, ready to catalogue the toast’s faults.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
The region contains faults, volcanic structures, rifts, scarps, and active subduction and spreading zones, many located at depths that make detailed sonar mapping extremely difficult.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
For all its faults, Medicare Advantage is arguably the best healthcare program we have.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
However, back-to-back double faults and another miss from the Italian gifted Kecmanovic his breakthrough in the ninth game, and the Serb did not flinch as he served out the first set to love.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
“But to expose the former faults of any person without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable. We acted with the best intentions.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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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
Among a list of eight acute budget issues, the July 2 letter faulted the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Today, the Ledi Geraru area is a rugged landscape of faulted badlands.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
The Belarusian, 27, had been on track to take the opening set but double faulted as she looked to serve it out.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
Mr. Dannenberg talked about the people he faulted for his son’s death.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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 not faulting the social media companies for failure to remove malign content from their platforms," Bergman told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
Environmental regulators are faulting Chiquita Canyon Landfill for making “no meaningful improvement” in reducing noxious odors emanating from the Castaic facility and have ordered operators to take additional steps to address the problem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2024
They appear to be associated with faulting upon the inner margin of the chain.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
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