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fault

[fawlt] / fɔlt /




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It’s not a great place to be, and it’s not all our fault.

From MarketWatch Sep. 22, 2026

And maybe after that they warned us because they were now really, really nervous and needed it to be clear they’d asked for help, and if anything goes wrong it’s not their fault!

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

And it was, of course, all my fault.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

Only when an airline is at fault - not issues such as air traffic control problems - is extra compensation payable.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

I guess you could say it’s my fault.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

After thousands of passes over the Moon, researchers have assembled maps precise enough to identify new craters, landslides, spacecraft landers, seismic faults, and possible signs of lava tubes.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

The West’s foray eastward, for all its faults, sparked a productive cross-pollination.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

Scott’s track record of big aces and occasional double faults has followed him from tennis to college sports and back again.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Globally, there are an estimated 150-200 cable faults a year, external, most caused not by saboteurs but by fishing, ship anchors, natural hazards and equipment failure.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

He learns that the house, for all its beauty, has certain faults in the summer months, so that it makes all the more sense that it is a place Gerald and Lydia annually avoid.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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

Today, the Ledi Geraru area is a rugged landscape of faulted badlands.

From Science Daily May 16, 2026

Mr. Dannenberg talked about the people he faulted for his son’s death.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

“This deferential standard of review leaves no basis for faulting the Commission’s work,” the appeals court concluded in its opinion.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 4, 2025

Deep-seated habits of faulting and fogging, which were actually developed by my schooling, prevent my forming any conception of the surfaces involved.

From The Salvaging Of Civilisation by H. G.




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