fault line
Example Sentences
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The fault line exposed now is that private credit is being offered to retail investors and wealthy individuals whose liquidity preferences are different from sophisticated, more patient institutional investors.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026
He astutely flags “medical gatekeeping” as an emerging fault line.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026
"This is significant because it means the ground shaking near the fault line might be more intense than our current hazard models predict for these types of faults."
From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025
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
