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as in to bicker
to express different opinions about something often angrily
club members were soon falling out about how to spend the money they'd made washing cars
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Recent Examples of fall out
Dan Mangan, CNBC, 10 June 2026
Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong, and Will Friedle are opening up about their falling out with Boy Meets World costar Ben Savage.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 10 June 2026
Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
While the author and showrunner are firm in their understanding of Percy’s decision and the fallout, the response to the betrayal has in the few years since the book’s release proved divisive among readers.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
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Verb
The two men had a falling out in the early 2000s.
—Dan Mangan, CNBC, 10 June 2026
Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong, and Will Friedle are opening up about their falling out with Boy Meets World costar Ben Savage.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 10 June 2026
Noun
The same can be said for the One Wish Willow, whose regular availability in a holistic gift shop belies sinister developments until the customer is slowly dying from the ironic fallout of their heart’s deepest desire.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
While the author and showrunner are firm in their understanding of Percy’s decision and the fallout, the response to the betrayal has in the few years since the book’s release proved divisive among readers.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fall out
Verb
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King bickered with fans on social media.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2026
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But Tilly and Gershon playfully bickered onstage as the former remembered things slightly differently, with Tilly saying the problem had more to do with a shot of her hand on Gershon's crotch that was deemed too realistic.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
Verb
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The bill would prevent efforts like Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballots to voters who can prove citizenship.—
Evelyn Ronan,
Sacbee.com,
12 June 2026
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The whole episode is a reminder to product designers everywhere that users can be extremely sensitive to the seemingly smallest changes — and Spotify clearly had not anticipated that a teeny-tiny disco ball drop would prove to be unpopular.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
12 June 2026
Noun
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When the first paparazzi images of the show came out, there was some blowback and changes were made.—
Rebecca Ford,
Vanity Fair,
8 June 2026
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Could some blowback be aimed at Blondie if this event seems too walled-off?—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
8 June 2026
Verb
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Resistance groups formed in the wake of the coup have combined with major ethnic armed groups such as the Arakan Army to take on the military, which is fighting the rebellion on multiple frontlines.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
11 Dec. 2025
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For the moment, Canada is fighting harder, or at least more publicly, than Mexico.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
11 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Occasional leakage, especially in children, whose inhibitory systems are still maturing, is less a feature than a side effect of running such a complicated piece of hardware every night without maintenance windows.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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The goal of all this havoc is not to destroy democracy, according to Vergara—though that might be a welcome side effect, to some—but to torpedo the rule of law and thereby protect illicit financial gains.—
Daniel Alarcón,
New Yorker,
4 June 2026
Verb
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Opponents to the development argued that the circumstances are different and that the court's decision does not apply to the Greeley case.—
Dillon Thomas,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
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One of the project’s most significant adversaries is the city of Sacramento — while the area is not under their governance, city officials argue the development would violate a decades-old habitat conservation agreement with the county.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
16 June 2026
Noun
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These currents are an inevitable by-product of ocean physics on a complex shoreline, says Chris Houser, a coastal geomorphologist at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
19 Aug. 2025
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Renewable naphtha is processed from crude tall oil, which is a by-product of the pulp industry.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Mulroney, Ackerman, Snow, and Newman turn this story of spatting WAGS into an explosive, addictive watch.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
11 Aug. 2025
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Preparation has cultural and regional variations, but the seed is usually chewed with slaked lime and betel leaves, and chewing releases a red juice that's often then spat out.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Fall out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fall%20out. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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