fall back on
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In the new apartment, she has a roof over her head, but few people to fall back on.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Unlike Google or Meta, it has no advertising empire to fall back on if business takes a hit, and no cloud business like Microsoft's or SpaceX's.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
What Baldwin is lamenting is our tendency to fall back on binaries — right and wrong, good and evil — rather than to struggle with complexity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Like many South Africans, most workers in the area live hand-to-mouth, with no savings to fall back on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
As writers, then, we should try to get into our readers’ heads and be mindful of how easy it is to fall back on parochial jargon and private abstractions.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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