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
He cited safety concerns—the plant sits on a fault line.
From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025
But a fault line ran through the center of his thinking, a kind of mysterious region where ideas entered going in one direction but then emerged headed the opposite way.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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