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

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