fault
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It isn’t Los Angeles’s fault that they’ve built a modern juggernaut of global media and merchandising rights at a time when other teams are struggling to stay on TV.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Jackson Walker did not admit fault in the settlement but agreed to comply with bankruptcy disclosure requirements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Officials there believe contaminated parsley or cilantro are at fault.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
"It's not the social worker's fault, it is just the caseload," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
If something was in the wrong place, it was his own fault, because no one messed with his room but him.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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Sure, one might argue that in “The Odyssey,” Nolan is studying his own hubris, accepting the innate faults that come with bringing Homer to the big screen.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
The region contains faults, volcanic structures, rifts, scarps, and active subduction and spreading zones, many located at depths that make detailed sonar mapping extremely difficult.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
For all its faults, Medicare Advantage is arguably the best healthcare program we have.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
He won 87% of points behind his first serve and hit 13 aces to two double faults.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 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
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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
This was simply Zverev's best chance to win his first Grand Slam - and he cannot be faulted for grabbing it with both hands.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Today, the Ledi Geraru area is a rugged landscape of faulted badlands.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
Mr. Dannenberg talked about the people he faulted for his son’s death.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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
“This deferential standard of review leaves no basis for faulting the Commission’s work,” the appeals court concluded in its opinion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025
The present outline of the eastern coast and the nearly enclosed seas which lie between the islands and the mainland, are attributed by Richthofen chiefly to simple faulting.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
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