fallback
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A shuttle service that slips oil through the Strait of Hormuz now looks like the kingdom’s best fallback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
As progressively less material is stripped from the star, the peak fallback rate also decreases.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
“Without Congress, failed professionals will continue to use college sports as a fallback option — robbing the next class of young athletes of college scholarships,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Why this fallback to current convention, when the rest of the experience is about radical reinvention?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
The words “law school” escaped from my mouth, the fallback answer for many students who have no idea what they want to do with their lives.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
By now, though, many have exhausted those fallbacks and fallen into debt.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2023
Software companies know full well that almost no one reads these things, so they know they can safely stuff all the legal fallbacks they wish into their texts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2020
He added that “even with the fallbacks, we are not sure we’ll have enough to get to Sunday of this week.”
From Fox News ● Apr. 20, 2020
If Smoak bombs out, well, they would have Montero and Jaso as fallbacks at first.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2012
The fallbacks are a pair of retread Ortizes, Ramon and Russ.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2010
