fault
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But that does not mean people won’t retire early through no fault of their own or lose their jobs due to AI.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
"It wasn't his fault at all, my case and how it developed was something so rare," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
The death of the Cybertruck isn’t all the Cybertruck’s fault.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026
He was also struck that the agreement made no demands that Jimenez acknowledge any guilt, fault or wrongdoing, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Opal was still in trouble, and it was more my fault than ever.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Col Watson said several faults with the armoured vehicles were known about, but he told the inquest that these had not meant the vehicle should have been taken out of service.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
He faults the doomers for having “managed to make the debate between safe and unsafe,” and he maintains that “a lot of their proposals are extraordinarily unsafe or also dangerous in other ways.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
If both faults become highly stressed at the same time, conditions can become more favorable for a rupture to cross Cajon Pass and continue through both systems.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 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
“My old man's got his faults and I ain't sayin' he ain't,” Pluto Noak called out, “but he never done nothin’ to me like what you done to Martin!”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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At a moment in Huerta’s life when she could have faded into retirement and no one would have faulted her, she was seemingly everywhere all the time, because her work was nowhere near done.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
But since it became operational, critics have faulted both meager pledges from rich nations -- $822 million to date -- and a disbursement cycle disconnected from climate disasters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
Coach VanBuren’s picture of Jesse running a 440 against Dwyer High—Jesse lost that race, but from the picture you couldn’t be faulted for believing that he was about to sail to victory.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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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
“This deferential standard of review leaves no basis for faulting the Commission’s work,” the appeals court had concluded then in its opinion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025
Doubtless this uplift was accomplished not by one cataclysm but by a series of small faulting movements distributed over a very long period.
From Grand Teton [Wyoming] National Park by United States Dept. of the Interior
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