fault line

Example Sentences

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He astutely flags “medical gatekeeping” as an emerging fault line.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

“The deeper fault line here is not trade flows. It is capital,” wrote Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management, in a Sunday note.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 19, 2026

The Hamaoka plant is located in Omaezaki, Shizuoka prefecture, near a seismic fault line where a massive Pacific earthquake is expected to occur in the coming years or decades.

From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026

"This is significant because it means the ground shaking near the fault line might be more intense than our current hazard models predict for these types of faults."

From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025

But a fault line ran through the center of his thinking, a kind of mysterious region where ideas entered going in one direction but then emerged headed the opposite way.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis