fault line
Example Sentences
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The row that followed exposed the real fault line that's coming to the surface this summer: not whether to cut carbon or adapt to the heat – but how much to spend on each.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
He astutely flags “medical gatekeeping” as an emerging fault line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
“The deeper fault line here is not trade flows. It is capital,” wrote Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management, in a Sunday note.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 19, 2026
He cited safety concerns—the plant sits on a fault line.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
The massacres had happened over two hundred years ago, but the wound they’d made in our cultural history was left raw and festering, like a fault line that may begin trembling again at any moment.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
