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Recent Examples of faulty Israel argued the report was based on faulty data and assumptions. Iyad Abuheweila, New York Times, 21 May 2025 In the ’00s, Pankisi was widely known as a jihadist stronghold; its adjacent involvement in President Bush’s War on Terror unintentionally contributed to America’s faulty case to invade Iraq. Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 20 May 2025 Read Next Washington State Man with faulty car light was killed by WA deputy, suit says. Julia Marnin, Sacbee.com, 20 May 2025 The crashes were caused by faulty flight control software issues just minutes after takeoff. Terry Collins, USA Today, 17 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for faulty
Recent Examples of Synonyms for faulty
defective
Adjective
  • That leads estate planners to recommend to some clients an intentionally defective grantor trust (IDGT).
    Bob Carlson, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The parts planning team, which uses a separate system with different data, mistakenly orders a big batch of the now defective parts before getting the update.
    Sean O'Neill, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025

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“Faulty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faulty. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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