fault
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It’s hard to fault Stafford for not making a play that his body just can’t make, but it’s fair to wonder if the travel and short turnaround impacted his worst big game in several years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
"It was not the fault of Club America," Saint-Maximin says.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
When airlines are at fault, extra compensation is paid under UK and EU rules.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
It took an engineer, who had been unable to correct the fault from home, three hours to get to work.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
It was not Karli’s fault he had been born like that.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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
But one which Gauff felt was unavoidable after hitting a high amount of double faults at the preceding Cincinnati Open.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Near the surface, rocks can fracture, producing faults and earthquakes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
It’s made him very accommodating, since he’s not blind to Mother’s faults.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
A federal investigation faulted Boeing for the incident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
Among a list of eight acute budget issues, the July 2 letter faulted the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Their ire was directed at one man in particular: coach Hong Myung-bo, a former captain and footballing hero now faulted for his team's unimpressive run on the biggest sporting stage.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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
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
Perhaps thousands of years after the overthrust was accomplished another tremendous faulting still further modified the landscape of to-day.
From The Book of the National Parks by Robert Sterling Yard
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