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railer

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as in faultfinder

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Your relentless faultfinder—everybody has one—is quick to judge, minimize your accomplishments or demote you to an underdog.

— Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021

Definition of faultfinder

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In lesser hands, such a hero could be an insufferable scold, or alienating chaos agent.

— Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
After trying out a shot in the fourth episode in which Kim smiled, barely perceptibly, while watching Jimmy pull off a stunt, the creators settled into the idea that her character wasn’t a scold but was turned on by Jimmy’s shenanigans — and could be a surprising and active ally.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2025

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Early reactions dropped Monday, and while these are always to be taken with a grain of salt, the superlatives are flying from the keyboards of fanboys and film critics alike.

— Tom Tapp, Deadline, 6 July 2026
Yang was investigated as part of President Xi Jinping ’s decade-long anti-corruption campaign that critics say has been used partly to remove his political rivals.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 July 2026

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In addition to Brecht’s typical didacticism, there is a haunting passage for a fishwife whose son died in one of Lucullus’s campaigns.

— Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
An old fishwife sees a lobster try to escape and whacks it back in with her net.

— Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong, Time, 12 July 2018

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