find fault
Example Sentences
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Unable to find fault with the judicial process, you pin your hopes on “diplomatic discussions.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
The compliance report quotes the whistleblower as saying that “the purpose was to find fault with the track in order to withhold the license”.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2024
This year, though, the grumblers went silent as Oscar voters delivered an unimpeachable best picture field, a group of 10 movies that only a self-proclaimed Scrooge could find fault with.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2024
I always sort of find fault and go, "Oh, you should have done this better. Oh, you could have done that better."
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2023
There was always something to find fault with for Shasta had plenty of work to do, mending and washing the nets, cooking the supper, and cleaning the cottage in which they both lived.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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