fault line
Example Sentences
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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
But Wales's decision to include glass has become a major fault line with industry representatives.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
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 massacres had happened over two hundred years ago, but the wound they’d made in our cultural history was left raw and festering, like a fault line that may begin trembling again at any moment.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
