fault
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Pegg said he had previously been putting his symptoms down to "just character fault".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The reforms will help, but more are needed, including fixing the state’s scaffold law that holds property owners and contractors fully liable for gravity-related construction injuries even if a worker is at fault.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The court was also told that police had not tested how slippery the road was or carried out a number of checks that might have established if there was a fault with the vehicle.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
That means both fault segments are carrying unusually high and relatively similar levels of stress.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
“It is the fault of the beets,” the captain said.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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If a judge faults an environmental review, agencies could correct the purported lapse rather than restart the permitting process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Those patterns suggest that major earthquakes on the two faults have sometimes occurred unusually close together.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
He emphasised that in systems of such complexity, obscure faults are extremely hard to prevent.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The West’s foray eastward, for all its faults, sparked a productive cross-pollination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
He says he cannot accept what Van Rappard has said—that Vincent's work is extremely weak, that the faults outnumber his strengths.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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But bureau employees have faulted Patel for how he’s handled it.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026
Inflation watchers in the private sector said the BEA move was justified, but they faulted the agency for not giving the public a heads up, even for such a nerdy statistical thing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Their ire was directed at one man in particular: coach Hong Myung-bo, a former captain and footballing hero now faulted for his team's unimpressive run on the biggest sporting stage.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Guerra said while Bass can do much of her job from another city for a day, a mayor is often faulted for not being front and center during an emergency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
It sounded true and likely to most of the crowd, especially those who faulted the sister.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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Because SMRs form through the same type of faulting, moonquakes may also occur across the lunar maria wherever these ridges exist.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
Blaming hip hop for these realities is like faulting a photograph for its subject matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
"We are not faulting the social media companies for failure to remove malign content from their platforms," Bergman told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
Environmental regulators are faulting Chiquita Canyon Landfill for making “no meaningful improvement” in reducing noxious odors emanating from the Castaic facility and have ordered operators to take additional steps to address the problem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2024
Movement of this sort along a fracture is what the geologist terms "faulting."
From Grand Teton [Wyoming] National Park by United States Dept. of the Interior
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