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fault

[fawlt] / fɔlt /




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"We weren't quite on the same page today but I cannot fault anyone's effort," Chelsea captain Erin Cuthbert said.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Martha Stewart is setting the record straight about her controversial Halloween costume: It wasn’t Craig Melvin’s fault.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Still, you can’t fault the Modi government for lack of ambition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

This behavior is part of a built-in safety system known as fault protection.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

‘It’s not your fault, Mila,’ William says, but she ignores him and carries on.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

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

Depending on the state of stress across the surrounding faults, it may either stop a rupture or allow it to continue from one fault system into the other.

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

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

“This Court cannot be faulted for failing to follow guidance that was never given,” Frimpong wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 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

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

Environmental regulators are faulting Chiquita Canyon Landfill for making “no meaningful improvement” in reducing noxious odors emanating from the Castaic facility and have ordered operators to take additional steps to address the problem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2024

They appear to be associated with faulting upon the inner margin of the chain.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various


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