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[fawlt] / fɔlt /




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The reforms will help, but more are needed, including fixing the state’s scaffold law that holds property owners and contractors fully liable for gravity-related construction injuries even if a worker is at fault.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The court was also told that police had not tested how slippery the road was or carried out a number of checks that might have established if there was a fault with the vehicle.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

On the nearby Mojave South section of the San Andreas fault, modeled stress has reached 2.8 MPa.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Instead, the model helps reveal which earthquake scenarios may be physically plausible given the current state of the fault system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Opal was still in trouble, and it was more my fault than ever.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

If a judge faults an environmental review, agencies could correct the purported lapse rather than restart the permitting process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

To investigate the relationship between the faults, Goldfinger and his colleagues studied deep sea sediment cores containing about 3,100 years of geologic history.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

The West’s foray eastward, for all its faults, sparked a productive cross-pollination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Scott’s track record of big aces and occasional double faults has followed him from tennis to college sports and back again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

One of my greatest faults was that of letting his horse run away, and go down to his father-in-law’s farm, which was about five miles from St. Michael’s.

From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass

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

The airline faulted its heavy reliance on CrowdStrike, while the tech companies pointed to Delta’s own technology and decisions in the outage’s immediate aftermath.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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

“This deferential standard of review leaves no basis for faulting the Commission’s work,” the appeals court had concluded then in its opinion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

Movement of this sort along a fracture is what the geologist terms "faulting."

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




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