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There is no easy explanation for how the San Andreas fault, responsible for some of America’s most powerful earthquakes, has produced so few in the last century.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

"We've not done anything wrong - it's not our fault that the prisons are full," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

“We did not have our best last 12 months ever, which is mostly my fault, but we are about to have our best 12 months to date,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in July.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

The character he plays here is loquacious to a fault, though.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Nim yelled—so loud and so often that Fred went to sulk in his cave in case it was his fault.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Colombia’s Pacific region around the quake’s epicenter lies in the “Ring of Fire,” the line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean where most of the world’s earthquakes occur.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

I had my notebook open beside me, ready to catalogue the toast’s faults.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

The region contains faults, volcanic structures, rifts, scarps, and active subduction and spreading zones, many located at depths that make detailed sonar mapping extremely difficult.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

For all its faults, Medicare Advantage is arguably the best healthcare program we have.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

In Jane Austens novel Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Lucas tells her friend Elizabeth Bennet that it is better to go into a marriage blind to the other persons faults.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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

Guerra said while Bass can do much of her job from another city for a day, a mayor is often faulted for not being front and center during an emergency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

The airline faulted its heavy reliance on CrowdStrike, while the tech companies pointed to Delta’s own technology and decisions in the outage’s immediate aftermath.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Today, the Ledi Geraru area is a rugged landscape of faulted badlands.

From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026

The monks can’t be faulted for their ignorance.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

There was certainly no faulting Newcastle's effort in this loss against Barcelona - right up until the last breath.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025

That's the way you do be picking at me and faulting me.

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various