falter

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However that previous head coaching experience was one reason he was brought to Los Angeles as as the Kings’ top assistant in 2024 since it made him an ideal fallback candidate should Hiller falter.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

Hopes the crucial waterway would be reopened have taken another hit as peace talks falter and cargo ships are attacked, but investors still have reason for hope.

From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026

Catherine is herself a gifted math scholar but had to give up her studies when her father’s mental health began to falter and she moved back home to take care of him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Still, the economy can only sustain so many blows before it begins to falter.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

Without equality, eugenics would inevitably falter on the false premise that social ills, such as vagrancy, pauperism, deviance, alcoholism, and feeblemindedness were genetic ills—while, in fact, they merely reflected inequality.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee