fault
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Serena produced two service winners to force the tie-break back on serve, but Kostyuk and Stearns held firm before securing victory on a double fault from Venus.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
In the popular Reddit forum “Am I the Asshole?” users describe a personal experience and others weigh in on whether the person is at fault.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
If he is found to be at fault and suspended, another by-election could be triggered.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
There is no easy explanation for how the San Andreas fault, responsible for some of America’s most powerful earthquakes, has produced so few in the last century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
She had been bitten, once, by an avanc—entirely her own fault, Leonor scolded, for getting too close—and it had gone septic, and her great-aunt had had to sit up with her for seven nights running.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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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
After exchanging points, Gauff - the player with the most double faults on the WTA Tour this season - suffered a lapse of concentration and landed just her second double fault of the match.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
For all its faults, Medicare Advantage is arguably the best healthcare program we have.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Even with all their faults, Malcolm and Maud had had their children’s interests at heart.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
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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
This was simply Zverev's best chance to win his first Grand Slam - and he cannot be faulted for grabbing it with both hands.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Today, the Ledi Geraru area is a rugged landscape of faulted badlands.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
The monks can’t be faulted for their ignorance.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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 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
There was certainly no faulting Newcastle's effort in this loss against Barcelona - right up until the last breath.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
By that time the mountains formed by Triassic and Jurassic folding and faulting had been worn down to a peneplain, now much dissected but still recognizable in the accordant level of the mountain tops.
From Drainage Modifications and Glaciation in the Danbury Region Connecticut State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. 30 by Ruth Sawyer-Harvey
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