fall back
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Lately, I’ve never been more thrilled to have that excuse to fall back on.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
And within a few races, you realise that your upgrade doesn't work and you fall back and you're just third on the road.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
Unlike Google or Meta, it has no advertising empire to fall back on if business takes a hit, and no cloud business like Microsoft's or SpaceX's.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
What Baldwin is lamenting is our tendency to fall back on binaries — right and wrong, good and evil — rather than to struggle with complexity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Pain rips up my hand and I fall back, but just as quickly the pain is gone.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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