fallback
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Saleh said he ordered the establishment of a fallback command hub in a secure position to reorganize.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
As progressively less material is stripped from the star, the peak fallback rate also decreases.
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
Why this fallback to current convention, when the rest of the experience is about radical reinvention?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
His fallback plan is yet another forced march, this one to the city of Danville, where more than a million rations are supposed to await.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
By now, though, many have exhausted those fallbacks and fallen into debt.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2023
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
Her fallbacks, Target and Walmart, were no better.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2020
If Smoak bombs out, well, they would have Montero and Jaso as fallbacks at first.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2012
The fallbacks are a pair of retread Ortizes, Ramon and Russ.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2010
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