faults

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However, back-to-back double faults and another miss from the Italian gifted Kecmanovic his breakthrough in the ninth game, and the Serb did not flinch as he served out the first set to love.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026

Another example involves a system of faults all primed to rupture, but there’s somehow a delay in a second part of the fault rupturing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026

There are several strike-slip faults where the two plates slide up against each other horizontally, sometimes snagging and building stress before violently rupturing and sometimes, as in Wednesday’s event, releasing another earthquake.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

These faults often form where massive tectonic plates move past one another but become stuck, allowing pressure to build for years or even centuries before a rupture occurs.

From Science Daily • Jun. 18, 2026

The plan may have had faults, but we did not.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green