fallback
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Saleh said he ordered the establishment of a fallback command hub in a secure position to reorganize.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
With shipping at a standstill in the Strait of Hormuz, a conduit for a fifth of the world's oil and gas, the Panama Canal has become a fallback route for energy shipments.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
The more concentrated flow helps maintain a similar peak fallback rate, and therefore roughly the same predicted flare brightness.
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
Olmsted had begun to think in terms of fallback arrangements.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
By now, though, many have exhausted those fallbacks and fallen into debt.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2023
The two medications had been the the backbone of antibody treatment, and doctors were hard pressed to come up with fallbacks when they didn’t work against omicron.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
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
The fallbacks are a pair of retread Ortizes, Ramon and Russ.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2010
