fault
Example Sentences
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“Sadly, this was my fault. A friend called.”
From Literature
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It wasn’t my fault that I’d inherited my mom’s height, and just to press the fact, I straightened my spine so I could look down at him.
From Literature
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But guilt implies fault, and I want you to try as best you can to shed that burden.
From MarketWatch
It has been working with tech companies to determine how such facilities could stay online during brief faults on the system instead of switching to backup.
As people lose their jobs, “we’re going to have to help people holistically find purpose and to let them know it’s OK, and it’s not your fault, and it’s not your boss’s fault.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.