fatal flaw
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The act's fatal flaw was a conditional immunity clause - later ruled unlawful - which could have been used by ex-soldiers, or former paramilitaries.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025
The beauty of her transfer strategy is that it can accomplish nearly the same, and precisely because of the Education Department’s fatal flaw: it’s unnecessary.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025
That’s a fatal flaw in the Santa Claus rally’s statistical foundation, unless there is a good explanation for why Santa Claus was asleep for more than 60 years and then woke up.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025
Ellen maintains an appropriately wary distance and skepticism of Liz, but Paul’s fatal flaw is his assumption of good faith.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025
But there is a fatal flaw in this reasoning: plant domestication is not a matter of hunter-gatherers’ domesticating a single plant and otherwise carrying on unchanged with their nomadic lifestyle.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
