as in criticized
to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of
you should look at your own work before faulting what others have done
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Recent Examples of faulted
The lawsuit also faulted organizers for not ensuring attendees did not have weapons, tear gas or bear spray, for allowing attendees to enter the festival from multiple unmonitored points and for not imposing security measures after problems at previous events.
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Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
27 June 2026
The senators’ letter also faulted the way Tesla counts crashes in its safety reports.
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Samantha Elkins,
NBC news,
25 June 2026
Guerra said while Bass can do much of her job from another city for a day, a mayor is often faulted for not being front and center during an emergency.
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Noah Goldberg,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
Pitts, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, faulted the administration for carrying out the arrests and for holding people in nearby cells for longer than a prescribed 12-hour limit.
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ABC News,
23 June 2026
Their work is faulted as factually wrong and politically motivated.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
12 June 2026
The lawsuit faulted Jacksonville Beach Police for hiring and putting O’Connell on a sensitive case despite his own legal history.
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ArsTechnica,
10 June 2026
Chwalinska double-faulted on the opening point of the match, but was the first player to hold serve in the fifth game.
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CBS News,
6 June 2026
Anisimova caught her toss, but then double-faulted and lost the game.
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James Hansen,
New York Times,
30 May 2026
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
27 June 2026
The senators’ letter also faulted the way Tesla counts crashes in its safety reports.
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Samantha Elkins,
NBC news,
25 June 2026
Guerra said while Bass can do much of her job from another city for a day, a mayor is often faulted for not being front and center during an emergency.
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Noah Goldberg,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
Pitts, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, faulted the administration for carrying out the arrests and for holding people in nearby cells for longer than a prescribed 12-hour limit.
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ABC News,
23 June 2026
Their work is faulted as factually wrong and politically motivated.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
12 June 2026
The lawsuit faulted Jacksonville Beach Police for hiring and putting O’Connell on a sensitive case despite his own legal history.
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ArsTechnica,
10 June 2026
Chwalinska double-faulted on the opening point of the match, but was the first player to hold serve in the fifth game.
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CBS News,
6 June 2026
Anisimova caught her toss, but then double-faulted and lost the game.
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James Hansen,
New York Times,
30 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for faulted
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Greenspan was also criticized for enacting policies that contributed to the subprime mortgage crisis that led to the recession at the end of the 2000s.
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The Federal Reserve’s steadfast period of low interest rates in the 2000s was criticized as contributing to a housing bubble in the 2000s, followed by the mortgage crisis of 2007 and the Great Recession the following year.
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The county argues the grand jury fundamentally misunderstood what happened before the explosion, saying its investigation relied on speculation instead of evidence and wrongly blamed county officials for a criminal enterprise prosecutors say was built on years of deception.
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That’s how many layoffs have been blamed on AI so far this year, according to career services firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas.
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They have also been widely condemned by antisemitism watchdogs, the university and government officials — some of whom suggested that his comments should prevent him from being hired anywhere.
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There are moments when a phrase, or a current of thought, that had seemed condemned to archival history is suddenly all anyone talks about.
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Hezbollah, not included in the talks, has denounced them.
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These tensions flared to their worst level since the invasion this week, when Nawrocki denounced and stripped Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded to him in 2023, over the honoring of the UPA.
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“Faulted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faulted. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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