fault line
Example Sentences
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Some risks can be largely sidestepped: choosing not to build on an earthquake fault line, for example, or in flood plains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
It is a fault line that has divided Icelanders for decades, but after winning a snap election in 2024 Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir's centre-left government pledged to hold a referendum by 2027.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Playing a childless, vain, pitch-perfect vision of Los Angeles’ wickedness in “Maps to the Stars,” Julianne Moore mothered so hard she almost separated California right down the San Andreas fault line.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
He cited safety concerns—the plant sits on a fault line.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 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
