fallback

Example Sentences

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In moments of doubt, Sophia has considered a fallback plan, which was to get a certification in AI prompt writing.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her career has been going so well that it’s been more than a year since she’s worked at her fallback occupation: dental hygienist.

From New York Times

Faced with a challenge, my fallback is usually honesty.

From Washington Post

The dish I told Joe about over lunch was a salad that I’ve made for a few years and became my fallback through most of the pandemic.

From Washington Post

The village became an emblem of Germany’s fallback on fossil fuels as the war in Ukraine signaled an end to cheap natural gas supplies from Russia.

From Washington Post