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fallout

[fawl-aut] / ˈfɔlˌaʊt /


NOUN
radioactivity
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The Chip Security Act has an 80% chance of enactment because of the fallout from Huang’s affair, up from 60% previously, according to Veda Partners analysts Henrietta Treyz and Dan McCarthy.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

Amid the fallout over FFE, Wenger, who has traditionally been loyal to Infantino, distanced himself from the aborted plot.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

The fallout from the board’s new investigation could become “a longer-lasting problem for the company,” analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

Now, Cook is discussing the betrayal and its fallout in a new documentary, “Funny Money.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

If the wind blew this deadly fallout into rain clouds, it could literally rain down on nearby towns.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

Rising prices and a volatile currency have been among the major domestic economic fallouts of Moscow's four-year offensive on Ukraine, which has seen it hit with unprecedented packages of Western sanctions.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

The trail of damage from Patterson’s pet project includes money fights, family estrangement and bitter fallouts as friends turned on each other amid efforts to debunk or defend the footage over the years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Few fallouts have spilled out into the open in recent years – and those that did were picked over simply because they're so rare.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025

Bejarano cited recent articles by Times critic Mark Swed and New Yorker critic Alex Ross that indicted boards for some newsworthy artistic fallouts.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024

"COVID-19 fallouts are pushing low-paid workers into even harder situations with little, or no, increase in pay," said Hisashi Yamada, senior economist at Japan Research Institute.

From Reuters ● Oct. 22, 2021


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