fall back on
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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
Poor families that could afford only potatoes would have nothing to fall back on when the crop gave out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
"We want to create a comprehensive, transparent, reliable framework that publishers and authors can fall back on," Esme Dennys, the initiative's co-founder, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
At least men can always fall back on suits, he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
And if by some small chance all of that didn’t work, I’d fall back on what I do best—I would lie.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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