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[fawl-tee] / ˈfɔl ti /


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In a crisis, the promise sounds beautifully simple: Your brain chemistry is faulty, take this medication and you’ll feel better.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Monday’s disruption was the latest in a series of air-traffic problems in recent years related to faulty, often old equipment—or contractors interfering with it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The British Heart Foundation explains, external a cardiac arrhythmia ablation involves using heat or cold energy to create tiny scars in the heart to block faulty signals and restore a typical heartbeat.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Those faulty messages can produce shooting, stabbing or burning sensations.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

Most sickness and disease today is the result of faulty diet and wrong eating.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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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