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[fawl-tee] / ˈfɔl ti /


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According to residents, the parade's authorisation was based on faulty police intelligence that the march would not meet any resistance.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

SpaceX on Monday launched Starship for the first time since July and, despite a faulty engine, managed to put the rocket in orbit for the first time as well.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

The AI problem might be as simple as correcting a faulty training strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The British Heart Foundation explains, external a cardiac arrhythmia ablation involves using heat or cold energy to create tiny scars in the heart to block faulty signals and restore a typical heartbeat.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“And speaking of hitherto unsuspected skills, Ronald,” said George, “what is this we hear from Ginny about you and a young lady called — unless our information is faulty — Lavender Brown?”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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 Henry Downton

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 Jacob Abbott

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 John Dryden




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