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fall farther behind
verb as in lose ground
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Example Sentences
If low-income students fall farther behind, and privileged students mostly do fine, achievement gaps will widen in the coming months.
Their state’s ethics laws would be gutted and its public schools would fall farther behind the nation’s best.
Its wide, Earth-trailing orbit around the sun means that it will fall farther behind our planet until Earth effectively “laps” it, giving the spacecraft a gravity boost that slings it forward until it nearly catches up with Earth from behind.
Michener said students who are suspended often fall farther behind and become more alienated from school.
Michener said students who are suspended often fall farther behind and become more alienated from school.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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