fault
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“All this stuff that’s going on,” Lue said, “you can’t take that out on our players … that’s not their fault, you know?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
This isn’t the fault of the individuals within the system.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
In a Wall Street Journal interview, she said that she didn’t fault the White House for her brief and rocky tenure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
"Really, it's still my fault," he said, "but I deserved to go for the space and I still believe I had the right for it."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
For example—at no fault of my own—I was so close to being expelled to Cleveland, which would have changed my life forever.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Col Watson said several faults with the armoured vehicles were known about, but he told the inquest that these had not meant the vehicle should have been taken out of service.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 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
Even when faults are highly stressed, scientists cannot use that information to determine exactly when a rupture will occur.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 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
Chris was well aware of this man’s faults yet managed to forgive them.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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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
Among a list of eight acute budget issues, the July 2 letter faulted the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The monks can’t be faulted for their ignorance.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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 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
“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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