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
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
Poor families that could afford only potatoes would have nothing to fall back on when the crop gave out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
As she takes off in a full sprint, I fall back and collapse into the tall grass.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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