fallback
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With shipping at a standstill in the Strait of Hormuz, a conduit for a fifth of the world's oil and gas, the Panama Canal has become a fallback route for energy shipments.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
The more concentrated flow helps maintain a similar peak fallback rate, and therefore roughly the same predicted flare brightness.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
“Without Congress, failed professionals will continue to use college sports as a fallback option — robbing the next class of young athletes of college scholarships,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
They should be required to publish their resolution sources, document fallback procedures, and monitor markets for upstream tampering and coordinated narrative attacks tied to large open positions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
"We learned together! You know the fashion industry makes more from perfumes than it does from clothes? I figured it would be a good fallback skill. Here."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
By now, though, many have exhausted those fallbacks and fallen into debt.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2023
Software companies know full well that almost no one reads these things, so they know they can safely stuff all the legal fallbacks they wish into their texts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2020
And the usual fallbacks when stage shows are scarce — television, film, even waiting tables — are unavailable during this phase of the pandemic.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2020
He added that “even with the fallbacks, we are not sure we’ll have enough to get to Sunday of this week.”
From Fox News ● Apr. 20, 2020
If Smoak bombs out, well, they would have Montero and Jaso as fallbacks at first.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2012
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