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fault

[fawlt] / fɔlt /




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Teachout dismisses AI developers’ claims that many of the known problems created by their systems, including hacks of other digital systems, were inadvertent and therefore nobody’s fault.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

But some fault will lie with the private sector for not safeguarding its defenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Coaches and scouts suggested the young and wiry Martínez might never develop into a pitcher as successful as his brother Ramon, but Claire did not fault them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Work was ongoing to fix a fault with the 25,000-volt wires which power trains near Penkridge, causing disruption between Stafford and Wolverhampton.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

“Well, I was very unprepared and it’s your fault, Jakob. Documents to sign? The Park?”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

He faults the doomers for having “managed to make the debate between safe and unsafe,” and he maintains that “a lot of their proposals are extraordinarily unsafe or also dangerous in other ways.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Even when faults are highly stressed, scientists cannot use that information to determine exactly when a rupture will occur.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

He emphasised that in systems of such complexity, obscure faults are extremely hard to prevent.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

The West’s foray eastward, for all its faults, sparked a productive cross-pollination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

The world's a headmaster who works on your faults.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

But bureau employees have faulted Patel for how he’s handled it.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 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

Among a list of eight acute budget issues, the July 2 letter faulted the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

This was simply Zverev's best chance to win his first Grand Slam - and he cannot be faulted for grabbing it with both hands.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

Celia wonders whether Cuba will be left behind, alone in the Caribbean sea with its faulted and folded mountains, its conquests, its memories.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

State officials alleged that Park Ventura residents wandered away without proper supervision, in two cases faulting Steve Krivitsky specifically for failing to observe changes in a resident who left the premises as a result.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025

That's the way every one does be faulting me.

From Contemporary One-Act Plays by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie




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