fall upon
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“Since that really big winter in 1983, we’ve had several occasions of pretty active winter storms, but we’ve sort of dodged bullets because those storms, in general, didn’t fall upon the highest tides,” Cayan said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
These fall upon the reader more as an unsifted data dump than as a focused marshaling of evidence in aid of human and psychological insight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
“The command in this case would very naturally fall upon me,” Hamilton wrote External link in 1798.
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
"And so in that sense we wanted players to fall upon and see the echoes that they may not have noticed or have been using while they're sorting through all the echoes that they have."
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024
Nothing, he knew—unless some tremendous blow were to fall upon the Efrafans from outside: and of that there was no chance.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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