fault
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Instead, "everyone eases their conscience by saying it's social media's fault," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The miss wasn’t the fault of the company’s power and energy business, which has been benefiting from the data center build-out, as sales growth accelerated and prices increased.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Donnarumma was at fault for Aston Villa's second goal last weekend and Maresca acknowledged he has been "making some mistakes".
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
“They told us it was our fault, but it’s not our fault when the official people of Binational Half Marathon instructed us to park there.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
And the “National Anthem”—I try to sing it at baseball games; it’s not my fault my voice doesn’t go that high.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Col Watson said several faults with the armoured vehicles were known about, but he told the inquest that these had not meant the vehicle should have been taken out of service.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
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
Two of the most important fault systems in Southern California are the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
All the recent L.A. mayors I’ve known had their faults and failures, whether the task was filling potholes, building out transit or addressing the high cost of housing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
When Eva, who was never one to hide the faults of her children, mentioned what she thought she’d seen to a few friends, they said it was natural.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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“This Court cannot be faulted for failing to follow guidance that was never given,” Frimpong wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
But since it became operational, critics have faulted both meager pledges from rich nations -- $822 million to date -- and a disbursement cycle disconnected from climate disasters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
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
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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
Environmental regulators are faulting Chiquita Canyon Landfill for making “no meaningful improvement” in reducing noxious odors emanating from the Castaic facility and have ordered operators to take additional steps to address the problem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2024
It is very often bent or folded, and even more often faulted; the faulting may be of great complexity, making it extremely difficult to follow the vein.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
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