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
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
Why this fallback to current convention, when the rest of the experience is about radical reinvention?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
His fallback plan is yet another forced march, this one to the city of Danville, where more than a million rations are supposed to await.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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
