fault
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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
The Brand on show in this trial seemed courteous to a fault.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 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
He started to protest but soon gave up, since it was all his fault to begin with.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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During this period there have been clear vulnerabilities with her game, with opponents learning they could take advantage of a slow second serve that tended to produce double faults.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
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
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
They see the life and the feeling that Vincent meant to evoke, of real people, in a family, with faults, eating around a table, peasant life, real life, unromanticized.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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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
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
She can run in them if she has to, jump curbs, traverse the buckled, faulted sidewalks of Brooklyn without twisting an ankle.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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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 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
The horizontal component in faulting movements is more common than is often supposed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
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