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faulty

[fawl-tee] / ˈfɔl ti /


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But they insisted that the platforms themselves negligently enabled this harm through faulty design of their services.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Jax Newman lives in St James Walk in Cheltenham, a block of flats which has had numerous issues with faulty alarms.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

It again ties back to this faulty idea that there isn’t much return on investment for AI compute.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Other GSA officials under him had also raised safety concerns about Grok, which they viewed as sycophantic and too susceptible to manipulation or corruption by faulty or biased data—creating a potential system risk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Now I was alone, leaving the smaller cities that had winked out long ago like Christmas lights on a faulty wire.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline