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fault

[fawlt] / fɔlt /




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During midday Friday prayers on March 28, 2025, a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit central Myanmar along the Sagaing Fault.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

Fault tolerance describes a machine’s ability to operate normally even when its individual components fail or experience disruption.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

From “The Fault Lies in R-Star and in Ourselves,” Sept, 26, 2018:

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Last March, she had just wrapped up a European tour, at the same time as the Mean Girls single Not My Fault gave her the biggest hit of her career so far.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2025

The most common types of earthquakes are those where two plates meet, as in California along the San Andreas Fault.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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