fall
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Paramount would also have to pay Warner a $7-billion breakup fee should the deal fall apart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
So the rise of energy stocks isn’t a great sign that gasoline prices are due to fall anytime soon.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Akil raised $7 million to do a healthcare deal only to have it fall apart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Burnham paid tribute to Sir Keir, celebrating his record in government including improving rights for workers and renters, seeing NHS waiting lists fall and bringing rail back under public control.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Because he wasn’t hooked to anything, whenever there was some unevenness in the trail he would lunge ahead and trip and nearly fall.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
He rises and falls at the same pace as his companion in this nightmare, laying the groundwork on which Adjani can create something so enormous.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Wall Street uses as its proxy for risk the idea of the volatility of returns — if one asset rises and then falls, it is “riskier” than one that doesn’t.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
That falls to product development, an area where Ternus will have to surpass his predecessor if he wants to maintain Jobs’s legacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
The area falls between two separated parts of the bird conservation charity's Gwenffrwd-Dinas nature reserve in the Elenydd, it said.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
She falls asleep, still holding on, and I stay awake.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
The S&P 500 fell by 1% on Friday, its first move of that magnitude in either direction since June 26, FactSet data showed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
“The man I loved fell out of love with me,” she tells Kevin one evening, adding “whenever the chance to be loved came along again I ran away from it. I stopped trusting people.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 1,600 people fell ill after eating at Taco Bell; we know of at least 141 who have been hospitalized.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
U.S. stocks fell Friday as a deepening selloff in semiconductor shares and a sharp drop in Netflix extended a bruising week for technology investors, while oil prices surged on escalating U.S.-Iran tensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The very young princess fell in love with Don Clavijo, and on her own agreed to be his wife.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
"I am in the unusual situation as a London Assembly member and leader of a party where I haven't fallen under either," he added.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Traffic has since fallen to a three-week low, according to MarineTraffic.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Fittingly, the last scene Connor and Locke filmed as Nick and Charlie was the anniversary scene in the park where there is a fallen tree with the letters “N+C” carved into the trunk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
A drone struck a ship off the port in Iraq's southern province of Basra, a security official told AFP, while the country's oil ministry said an unspecified object had fallen near a tanker.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
She can’t even nudge it enough to let light in, and with dawning horror, she realizes their giant oak tree must have fallen on top of the cellar.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
It played Spain to a scoreless draw in its opener, then held Argentina to a 1-1 standoff into extra time before falling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The index, which trades under the ticker symbol “SOX,” saw choppy trading action in Friday’s session, falling as much as 5.7% before briefly swinging into positive territory.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
When Brook was swinging, missing, ramping and falling, Root was solid.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Netflix’s stock is falling in the wake of mixed earnings and a new plan to cut back on the publication of ‘What We Watched’ reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
But he caught himself and kept us both from falling.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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