fault line
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Democrats’ latest fault lines do not track perfectly along the familiar split between progressives and centrists.
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Fortune, 11 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
Afghanistan, which lies along several fault lines where the Indian and Eurasian plates meet, is especially vulnerable to earthquakes.
—Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC news, 3 Nov. 2025
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Fortune, 11 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
Afghanistan, which lies along several fault lines where the Indian and Eurasian plates meet, is especially vulnerable to earthquakes.
—Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC news, 3 Nov. 2025
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“Fault line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fault%20line. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.
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