noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a design fault/flaw (= a part of something that does not work well or look good )
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If a washing-machine makes too much noise, it’s a design fault.
a fundamental flaw (= fault that makes something imperfect )
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There is a fundamental flaw in the current tax system.
fatal flaw (= serious weakness )
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There was one fatal flaw in his argument.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
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Even if we accept the underlying private enterprise philosophy of Making Belfast Work, some basic flaws exist.
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It is always useful to consider ways to overcome any basic flaws in an evaluation procedure.
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If hon. Members plan to refer to that document, it would be helpful if they addressed its basic flaws .
fatal
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His reconstruction of the crimes had suffered from one fatal flaw .
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Many have argued that one of the fatal flaws a manager can have is unwillingness or inability to delegate.
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False percentages A fatal flaw in using percentages is to try and add them up when this is not really possible.
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She warns of thirst for knowledge tipping over into dangerous greed, and of youthful promise lost for one fatal flaw .
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The Arts: The curse of having good taste Joe Boyd has a fatal flaw: he has taste.
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But there is a fatal flaw in such policies: they assume that all cultures are equal in power.
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Yet yesterday's report, which highlighted fatal flaws in the system, showed that was clearly not the case.
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There were three fatal flaws to the Chancellor's strategy.
fundamental
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I think you may have a fundamental flaw in your thought processes.
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It attacks the fundamental flaws and loopholes in the campaign finance regulatory system adopted in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
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However, those exemptions and discounts merely reinforce the fundamental flaw at the centre of the council tax.
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Some people see this as a fundamental flaw in the whole theory of the blind watchmaker.
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But there were two fundamental flaws in the Covenant.
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Partnership is one of the fundamental flaws of football.
major
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There was one major flaw in this inspired scheme, no Provision was made for maintenance or replacement.
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One of the major flaws in the existing system is that the prosecutor has immunity from law suits claiming malicious prosecution.
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Some top cops say this terrifying news exposes major flaws in the current register system.
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With these words of faint praise, Maskelyne tactfully conceded a few major flaws in the lunar distance method.
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In the post-war period some democratic elitists detected a major flaw in this notion of bureaucratic rationality.
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The example also serves to expose the major flaw in Kleinig's account.
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On the issue of tempered curiosity, we encounter one of the major flaws , by modern standards, of the Presocratics.
minor
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Though the court view is rendered well and rotates smoothly, there is one minor flaw .
serious
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However, this analogy possesses two serious flaws .
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In general, any new cryptosystem could harbor serious flaws that are discovered only after years of scrutiny by cryptographers.
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Expert reveals serious flaws in museum and gallery security.
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Globalisation, accelerated by the internet, is exposing serious flaws in the world's tax systems.
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Remember your ideas may have a serious flaw .
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The Maastricht process contains a serious logical flaw .
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Critics have, however, found serious flaws in the whole approach.
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Similarly, a model in which a market is identified and then the technology sought to fill it also has serious flaws .
■ NOUN
character
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But he knows about this tiny character flaw , and is working on it.
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And they just said that I was really defensive; that was a character flaw , so I needed more hospitalization.
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The ads trumpet the idea that anxiety and depression result from imbalances in brain biochemistry, not from character flaws .
design
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No one is saying there is a design flaw in the Boeing 757.
■ VERB
expose
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Some top cops say this terrifying news exposes major flaws in the current register system.
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It exposes flaws and loopholes; and, by analysis, contradictions are highlighted and the limitations of proposals are exposed.
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Globalisation, accelerated by the internet, is exposing serious flaws in the world's tax systems.
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The example also serves to expose the major flaw in Kleinig's account.
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The markets have exposed the fatal flaw of Margaret Thatcher's government.
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The 25 percent. discount is another concession that exposes flaws in the tax.
find
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When Athene came to inspect the work she could find no flaw there.
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To be sure, some geologists have found flaws in certain parts of the theory, but few reject it entirely.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a character flaw
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It was half price because of a slight flaw .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In this he was fatally handicapped by his own inconsistencies, paradoxes and deep personal flaws.
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One of the major flaws in the existing system is that the prosecutor has immunity from law suits claiming malicious prosecution.
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Regulatory agencies uncovered numerous flaws in operating and safety procedures.
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The Web browser is nice, but it also has its flaws.
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These transitions would not occur altogether smoothly - flaws would be created, like the planes and lines formed when water freezes.
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They were, in any case, fairly trivial flaws.