fault line

Example Sentences

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But Wales's decision to include glass has become a major fault line with industry representatives.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 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

"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

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