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[fawlt] / fɔlt /




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But when an investigation goes wrong and someone is falsely accused, it’s the fault of the human handling the data, not the camera itself.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

This fault system has produced devastating magnitude 9 earthquakes in the past.

From Science Daily Aug. 30, 2026

Ford made their name with the micro-indie, micro-focused “Test Pattern,” an act of upending as it dissected an interracial relationship’s fault lines in a moment of crisis.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

South Korea's national police chief was grilled by lawmakers at an emergency National Assembly hearing on Monday, during which he admitted that "there is a fault in the system".

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

“Well, I was very unprepared and it’s your fault, Jakob. Documents to sign? The Park?”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

For all his faults, Mr. Obama never wavered in his view that there is nothing wrong with America that democracy can’t fix.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

That way, people can “take responsibility” for their faults and reconcile with God “in order to make a new future possible.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Sure, one might argue that in “The Odyssey,” Nolan is studying his own hubris, accepting the innate faults that come with bringing Homer to the big screen.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

The region contains faults, volcanic structures, rifts, scarps, and active subduction and spreading zones, many located at depths that make detailed sonar mapping extremely difficult.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

The world's a headmaster who works on your faults.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

Among a list of eight acute budget issues, the July 2 letter faulted the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

Today, the Ledi Geraru area is a rugged landscape of faulted badlands.

From Science Daily May 16, 2026

"In the first game of the second set, I double faulted twice out of nowhere. That gave her belief. She started playing aggressively. What can I say? Well done."

From BBC Apr. 29, 2026

Celia wonders whether Cuba will be left behind, alone in the Caribbean sea with its faulted and folded mountains, its conquests, its memories.

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

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

By that time the mountains formed by Triassic and Jurassic folding and faulting had been worn down to a peneplain, now much dissected but still recognizable in the accordant level of the mountain tops.

From Drainage Modifications and Glaciation in the Danbury Region Connecticut State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. 30 by Ruth Sawyer-Harvey




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