fault line
noun
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Complicating matters for Penn State were lingering fault lines among some of the most influential people within the Nittany Lions community that have tended to flare up when the school was faced with questions of how best to move the football program forward in the post-Joe Paterno era.
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Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
The new work makes a solid case for deeper gas rising along fault lines as a key driver, with climate change acting more as an indirect influence rather than the main culprit.
—New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2025
Japanese rule also established new fault lines within Korean society by furnishing political and economic opportunities for some of their colonial subjects.
—Kornel Chang
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Kidd said the city’s report showed that there aren’t any seismic fault lines near the dam and therefore the potential hazard posed by surface fault rupture, including secondary displacement at the site, is very low, less than 1% probability.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
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Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
The new work makes a solid case for deeper gas rising along fault lines as a key driver, with climate change acting more as an indirect influence rather than the main culprit.
—New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2025
Japanese rule also established new fault lines within Korean society by furnishing political and economic opportunities for some of their colonial subjects.
—Kornel Chang
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Kidd said the city’s report showed that there aren’t any seismic fault lines near the dam and therefore the potential hazard posed by surface fault rupture, including secondary displacement at the site, is very low, less than 1% probability.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Fault line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fault%20line. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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