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[fawlt] / fɔlt /




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Teachout dismisses AI developers’ claims that many of the known problems created by their systems, including hacks of other digital systems, were inadvertent and therefore nobody’s fault.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

But some fault will lie with the private sector for not safeguarding its defenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“This fault in us I find,” she says, of women generally, “the error of our eye doth direct our mind.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

He told the group: "I'm so sorry, that's my fault."

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“And why’s it my fault? They’re the ones who always bring up the story of how they got me. ‘

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

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

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

Those patterns suggest that major earthquakes on the two faults have sometimes occurred unusually close together.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 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

Critics faulted his hands-off approach to financial regulation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Coach VanBuren’s picture of Jesse running a 440 against Dwyer High—Jesse lost that race, but from the picture you couldn’t be faulted for believing that he was about to sail to victory.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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 not faulting the social media companies for failure to remove malign content from their platforms," Bergman told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

There was certainly no faulting Newcastle's effort in this loss against Barcelona - right up until the last breath.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025

The sudden yielding of the strata along a plane of faulting is a familiar cause of earthquakes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various


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