fallback
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Unified is exploring an idea to create regional hubs at which parents could drop off students — as a fallback for families with no other child-care options, according to sources with knowledge of the planning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
That means when fertilizer prices jump, corn becomes the more expensive bet and soybeans the cheaper fallback.
From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026
And, in the short term, experts say, coal remains the most readily available fallback.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
Kyiv, lacking funding and access to enough sophisticated weapons, has turned to balloons as an inexpensive fallback option that comes with an asymmetric advantage in the form of local wind patterns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
"We learned together! You know the fashion industry makes more from perfumes than it does from clothes? I figured it would be a good fallback skill. Here."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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
And the usual fallbacks when stage shows are scarce — television, film, even waiting tables — are unavailable during this phase of the pandemic.
From New York Times ● May 7, 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
