fault line

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The episode exposed a fault line in Silicon Valley between engineers who viewed autonomous targeting as an ethical red line and defense officials who saw it as essential.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

But Wales's decision to include glass has become a major fault line with industry representatives.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

He astutely flags “medical gatekeeping” as an emerging fault line.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

“The deeper fault line here is not trade flows. It is capital,” wrote Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management, in a Sunday note.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 19, 2026

The massacres had happened over two hundred years ago, but the wound they’d made in our cultural history was left raw and festering, like a fault line that may begin trembling again at any moment.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros