fall behind
Example Sentences
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The personnel changes signal to Wall Street that Alphabet may be losing out on AI talent to competing companies, which may mean it could fall behind in technological advances.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
All of those changes have consumer advocates concerned that more borrowers could fall behind on their payments, amid confusion over which plans they’re eligible for and which ones make the most sense for them financially.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
He said that a talent drain in 2019 caused Samsung to fall behind in developing certain high-bandwidth memory products and miss out on strong demand in 2024 and 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
For instance, a clock traveling at 10 m/s for 57 million years would fall behind a stationary clock by about one second.
From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026
Everyone else—Columbia, Rutgers, Pennsylvania, and Cornell—began to fall behind almost immediately.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
