the act or process of going to a lower level or altitude
panicked during his first unassisted fall when his parachute's rip cord didn't respond to the first tug
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High-severity misalignment alerts fell by nearly 80% in live coding environments involving Google’s teams.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Oct. 2026 The study also found that hypoxic burden — the severity and duration of low-oxygen episodes caused by breathing disruptions during sleep — fell by about 75% among participants without type 2 diabetes and 65% among those with the condition.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
28 Oct. 2026
Noun
A couple of 3s fall here, a couple of passes reach their targets there, and the Knicks may finally begin looking like their old selves once again.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
3 Nov. 2026 Sunday, another pleasant fall day is expected with partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies and highs in the upper 60s to lower 70s.—
Lauren Bostwick,
CBS News,
3 Nov. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fall
To date, it is estimated that some 400,000 people have already succumbed to starvation because of the drought and the fighting.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Oct. 2026
Hours after the band released The Same Place’s two lead singles in November 2024, the other half of OTC’s central brain trust, Will Cullen Hart, succumbed to a decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis.
Video recorded by people inside their cars captured the terrifying moment the aircraft plunged from the sky, before striking near the roadway and exploding.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Nov. 2026
Oil prices, sent rocketing by Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz energy corridor, plunged by more than 7% on Monday on optimism over a possible end to the eight-month-old conflict.
Some 100,000 people descended on the neighborhood, causing human traffic jams in the narrow streets.
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Lilit Marcus,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2026
To keep released fish alive, Florida Sea Grant’s Return ’Em Right program urges anglers to use descending devices, which return fish quickly to depth, and offers free devices to those who complete an online course.
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Tovar Cerulli,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Oct. 2026
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