fallback
Example Sentences
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The trick is building a little wiggle room in your budget for them—so that a fallback meal feels like a relief, not a splurge.
From Salon
It can also act as a fallback repair option for double-strand breaks.
From Science Daily
The commission has floated a potential fallback plan of the EU raising the money itself to lend Ukraine.
From Barron's
He said that without transparency and accountability, “the fallback is always going to be what it has been: We need more of everything — more people, more money, more fire trucks, more fire stations.”
From Los Angeles Times
The fallback to a 30% duty left the company at no better than a break-even rate on the trucks, Foreman said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
