fault
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Pegg said he had previously been putting his symptoms down to "just character fault".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
At the same time, officials in the office debated filing a claim against the state to argue that the overpayments were not the fault of the employees, according to the audit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
On terrorism, he was unequivocal that the victim is never at fault.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
The reforms will help, but more are needed, including fixing the state’s scaffold law that holds property owners and contractors fully liable for gravity-related construction injuries even if a worker is at fault.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
I was respectful and followed the rules and protocols to a fault.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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If a judge faults an environmental review, agencies could correct the purported lapse rather than restart the permitting process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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
To investigate the relationship between the faults, Goldfinger and his colleagues studied deep sea sediment cores containing about 3,100 years of geologic history.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
He emphasised that in systems of such complexity, obscure faults are extremely hard to prevent.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Then his older brother walked in the room and said it was both of our faults if he got sick to his stomach listening to us.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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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
The airline faulted its heavy reliance on CrowdStrike, while the tech companies pointed to Delta’s own technology and decisions in the outage’s immediate aftermath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
As the night shadows drifted from the peaks, Eilonwy lit her golden sphere and set it in the crevice of a faulted rock.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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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
There was certainly no faulting Newcastle's effort in this loss against Barcelona - right up until the last breath.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
Erosion working down on a complex vein displaced by faulting and folding may bring several parts of the same vein to the surface, developing what seem to be separate vein apices.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
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