free fall
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The equivalence principle says that gravity should effectively vanish locally for an observer in free fall.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
When he’s unsteady, every leap is perilously close to a free fall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Since the April election, Orbán's party has been in free fall, reeling from the shock defeat.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The former is bad news; selling more common shares of a stock in free fall would dilute existing shareholders and push the price even lower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
But if speculators got hold of that inside information, they could use it to enrich themselves—and, in the process, they might send France, and possibly the world, into financial free fall.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
