faultier; faultiest
Examples of faulty in a Sentence
the cause of the plane crash was traced to faulty wiring
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In July 2024, cybersecurity company CrowdStrike sent a faulty update to its security program, which crashed Microsoft Windows computers running the software.
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Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
The episodes usually involve finding the cracks in the book, assessing what doesn’t hold up or what’s based on faulty reasoning or where ideas go wrong.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
The Fyre Festival was widely covered in the media, and two documentaries exploring its faulty conception and disastrous execution were released in 2019.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
The beginnings of it are depicted in true disaster movie style, with ominous music and a collapsing electric pylon that causes a faulty cable to fall to the ground.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
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Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
The episodes usually involve finding the cracks in the book, assessing what doesn’t hold up or what’s based on faulty reasoning or where ideas go wrong.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
The Fyre Festival was widely covered in the media, and two documentaries exploring its faulty conception and disastrous execution were released in 2019.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
The beginnings of it are depicted in true disaster movie style, with ominous music and a collapsing electric pylon that causes a faulty cable to fall to the ground.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for faulty
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“Faulty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faulty. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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