fault line
noun
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This kind of professional re-ignition can expose existing fault lines and fuel external drama, regardless of the private reality.
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Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
The Philippines sits along the Ring of Fire, a 25,000-mile (40,000-kilometer) arc of seismic fault lines around the Pacific Ocean that hosts more than half of the world’s volcanoes.
—Brandon Miller, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
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Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
The Philippines sits along the Ring of Fire, a 25,000-mile (40,000-kilometer) arc of seismic fault lines around the Pacific Ocean that hosts more than half of the world’s volcanoes.
—Brandon Miller, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
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 10 Oct. 2025.
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