fall back
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Lately, I’ve never been more thrilled to have that excuse to fall back on.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
He explained that Too Young to Grieve helped people "build friendships so you have a community around you that you can fall back on".
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 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
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
I had no snappy answer, so I had to fall back on honesty.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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