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fallout

[fawl-out] / ˈfɔlˌaʊt /


NOUN
radioactivity
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William has never been able to forgive what he sees as Harry's public airing of the family fallout through his memoir Spare and their interview with Oprah Winfrey.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

The fallout from open models has been limited because they aren’t yet smart enough to cause widespread damage.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

But that picture looks very different now, after two weeks of relentless fallout to his now-abandoned plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup and other competitions to private investors.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Increasingly, according to more than a dozen current and former StubHub employees interviewed by the Journal, the company’s customer-support operations don’t have enough resources to clean up the fallout when something goes wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Both sides understood that these tests caused radioactive fallout that threatened the entire world.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Rising prices and a volatile currency have been among the major domestic economic fallouts of Moscow's four-year offensive on Ukraine, which has seen it hit with unprecedented packages of Western sanctions.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

The trail of damage from Patterson’s pet project includes money fights, family estrangement and bitter fallouts as friends turned on each other amid efforts to debunk or defend the footage over the years.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

Few fallouts have spilled out into the open in recent years – and those that did were picked over simply because they're so rare.

From BBC Mar. 10, 2025

Bejarano cited recent articles by Times critic Mark Swed and New Yorker critic Alex Ross that indicted boards for some newsworthy artistic fallouts.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2024

"COVID-19 fallouts are pushing low-paid workers into even harder situations with little, or no, increase in pay," said Hisashi Yamada, senior economist at Japan Research Institute.

From Reuters Oct. 22, 2021




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