fell for
Example Sentences
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Reports of inflation as the single-most important problem fell for the first time this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Manufacturing's share of GDP has gone down from 17% in 2015 to 14% currently. And manufacturing employment fell for five years after 2015 and has only now climbed back up slightly above those levels."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
He was married, age 45, 20 years older than Babitz, when they fell for each other in 1969.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The cost of goods minus food and energy, another critical inflation barometer, fell for the second month in a row in another bit of good news.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Because she fell for words like fresh-picked and vine-ripened, our mother was defined as a spendthrift.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
