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fault line

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fault linenoun

    (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface

Wiktionary

  1. fault linenoun

    The line formed by the intersection of the plane of a fault with the surface of the Earth

  2. fault linenoun

    A minor split (in public opinion etc) that may develop into something larger

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  1. fault line

    A fault line is a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock in the Earth's crust. It represents the boundary where tectonic forces have caused the earth's crust to break and shift, often resulting in earthquakes and seismic activity.

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    Read the full text of the Fault Line poem by Kurt Philip Behm on the Poetry.com website.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fault line in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fault line in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of fault line in a Sentence

  1. Jamie Dimon:

    The American dream is fraying and income inequality is like the fault line.

  2. Sean Clegg:

    This upscale vs. downscale, college educated vs. non-college educated divide really correlates to vaccination too, don't think about it as just a Democrat vs. Republican fault line, think about it as a fault line between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. When you draw the line there, you bring a lot of independents with you and even a few Republicans.

  3. Daniel Hoffman:

    I mean, look, he's calling Ukrainians neo-Nazis and drug dealers, and all this propaganda stuff we all know isn’t true. And I think deep down, a mass of his population, they know it's not true, it highlights for us, here in America, why Ukraine is on the front line … They are the geopolitical fault line right now between democracy and authoritarianism and a hallmark of authoritarianism is to control the narrative, control what people hear and see and then distort the truth.


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