fault line
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That border is the Missouri River, which divides South Dakota into two halves, like an aquatic fault line has severed the state.
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Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
Now, after years of warnings, that dependence has turned from an abstract vulnerability into a central fault line in global trade.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2025
With all the challenges ahead, Democrats are descending into bitter clashes whose fault lines were foreseeable from the moment the government shut down.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 10 Nov. 2025
That romance exposes the fault lines between their conflicting cultures, with Maya — a young, liberal Westerner whose freewheeling lifestyle is propped up by her unexamined privilege — coming face to face with a woman for whom even love is an act of resistance.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
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Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
Now, after years of warnings, that dependence has turned from an abstract vulnerability into a central fault line in global trade.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2025
With all the challenges ahead, Democrats are descending into bitter clashes whose fault lines were foreseeable from the moment the government shut down.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 10 Nov. 2025
That romance exposes the fault lines between their conflicting cultures, with Maya — a young, liberal Westerner whose freewheeling lifestyle is propped up by her unexamined privilege — coming face to face with a woman for whom even love is an act of resistance.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
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“Fault line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fault%20line. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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