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faulty

[fawl-tee] / ˈfɔl ti /


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He was initially sentenced by a Geneva court in 2014 to life in prison, but in 2017, the Swiss supreme court ordered a retrial over what it deemed was the use of faulty evidence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

This cleanup process, known as RNA degradation, helps regulate protein production, eliminate faulty RNA, and control immune responses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

The earlier MAX crashes, in 2018 and 2019, followed bad angle-of-attack data triggering a faulty flight-control system that pushed the planes into fatal nosedives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

To skim costs in that shift, the company used cheap, faulty battery packs that, it turns out, were the real culprit for the drone failure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

On the other hand, suppose our time traveler had persuaded Queen Isabella that Columbus’ geography was faulty, that from Eratosthenes’ estimate of the circumference of the Earth, Columbus could never reach Asia.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Or they just don’t like finding out their memories are faultier than they thought.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2018

There is no commoner, and at the same time faultier, way of reasoning, than that of objecting to a philosophical hypothesis the injury it may do to morals and to religion.

From The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism by Henry Downton

His next poem was "Annus Mirabilis," published in 1667, and counted justly one of his most vigorous, though also one of the faultiest of his poems.

From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden

Colburn's First Lessons, the only faultiest school book that we have, has made a great change in the mode of teaching Arithmetic, and is destined to make a still greater.

From Rollo in Holland by Jacob Abbott


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