fell back; fallen back; falling back; falls back
Examples of fallback in a Sentence
Verb
resistance from native forces was greater than expected, and the invading army was forced to fall back
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PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
For decades, the Pentagon’s fallback has been inertial navigation systems (INS), which use gyroscopes and accelerometers to track motion without external signals.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
The object will travel upwards, before falling back into your hand, or to the ground.
—Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The three options look good to my eyes, but the lack of black means there's no default, fallback choice for people who want their phone to be as sleek as possible.
—PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
For decades, the Pentagon’s fallback has been inertial navigation systems (INS), which use gyroscopes and accelerometers to track motion without external signals.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
While Windows offers more robust encryption options, many users don’t enable them, causing Active Directory to fall back to the Kerberos authentication method using the vulnerable RC4 cipher.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
The object will travel upwards, before falling back into your hand, or to the ground.
—Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Fallback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fallback. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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