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fault

[fawlt] / fɔlt /




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I’m reluctant to fault Ackie, who was dynamite earlier this summer in Boots Riley’s “I Love Boosters.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

This isn’t the fault of the individuals within the system.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

"It's a bitter pill to swallow to have to pay tax for something which was not my fault," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

“The investment question is which companies are most likely to reach fault tolerance first.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

“That was our fault, mine and Rowdy’s. They thought we were going to hurt them. That’s why they bit us.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Its nearly circular outline, elevated central peak, and surrounding rings of faults resembled structures found at other impact sites.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 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

Two double faults in the first game saw Boulter drop serve early and world number six Noskova steamrolled her way through the opening four games before wrapping up the set.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

After thousands of passes over the Moon, researchers have assembled maps precise enough to identify new craters, landslides, spacecraft landers, seismic faults, and possible signs of lava tubes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

But the real problem wasn’t that—wasn’t an accumulation of small faults.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

Guerra said while Bass can do much of her job from another city for a day, a mayor is often faulted for not being front and center during an emergency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

She can run in them if she has to, jump curbs, traverse the buckled, faulted sidewalks of Brooklyn without twisting an ankle.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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 faulting them for designing their platforms to addict kids and for developing algorithms that show kids not what they want to see but what they cannot look away from."

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

Entering the shutdown, polls indicated the country was split over who would be to blame, with 19% of Americans faulting Democrats and 26% charging Republicans, according to a New York Times poll.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

Doubtless this uplift was accomplished not by one cataclysm but by a series of small faulting movements distributed over a very long period.

From Grand Teton [Wyoming] National Park by United States Dept. of the Interior


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