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faulty

[fawl-tee] / ˈfɔl ti /


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That was BMW's lowest quarterly profit since late 2024 when faulty brakes fitted to vehicles ended up costing the carmaker hundreds of millions of euros.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

One prepared the station for upgrades to its electrical power system, while the other involved replacing a faulty joint on the Canadarm2 robotic arm.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

Sickle cell disease is a lifelong illness, common in people of African descent, and caused by a faulty gene that produces unusually shaped red blood cells that can become stuck in blood vessels.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

The president later blamed a faulty teleprompter glitch for the mishap.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

We had no say over its weak construction or its faulty design.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Or they just don’t like finding out their memories are faultier than they thought.

From Washington Post Sep. 7, 2018

There is no commoner, and at the same time faultier, way of reasoning, than that of objecting to a philosophical hypothesis the injury it may do to morals and to religion.

From The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism by Downton, Henry

Colburn's First Lessons, the only faultiest school book that we have, has made a great change in the mode of teaching Arithmetic, and is destined to make a still greater.

From Rollo in Holland by Abbott, Jacob

His next poem was "Annus Mirabilis," published in 1667, and counted justly one of his most vigorous, though also one of the faultiest of his poems.

From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by Dryden, John




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