fault line
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The Philippines is prone to natural disasters because of its location along the Ring of Fire, a 25,000-mile (40,000-kilometer) arc of seismic fault lines around the Pacific Ocean home to more than half of the world’s volcanoes, and regularly experiences powerful quakes.
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Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
Where are the fault lines in the Philippines?
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
The raid, Jones says, also exposed familiar fault lines in labor and manufacturing.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2025
With 90 seconds remaining, the Mercury crowd roared loud enough to threaten fault lines.
—Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
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Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
Where are the fault lines in the Philippines?
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
The raid, Jones says, also exposed familiar fault lines in labor and manufacturing.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2025
With 90 seconds remaining, the Mercury crowd roared loud enough to threaten fault lines.
—Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for fault line
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“Fault line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fault%20line. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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