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fault

[fawlt] / fɔlt /




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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

Diehards might find fault with something or other, but, to quote the author, you’d have to possess a “most forbidding, disagreeable countenance” not to be charmed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

The messenger whose fault it all was bowed low, amazed—how quickly one’s life could change!

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

This technique can reveal buried faults, craters, and other formations that cannot be observed directly.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 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

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

Her figure faults were gone, the too bony elbow having fleshed out nicely; the opposite pudgy wrist could not have been trimmer.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

But since it became operational, critics have faulted both the meager pledges from governments -- $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

A federal investigation faulted Boeing for the incident.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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

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

One of these lines girdles the whole globe, while others lie in certain directions more or less coincident with lines of flexure, plication or faulting.

From Volcanoes: Past and Present by Edward Hull


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