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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The cause of death of a 51-year-old concertgoer, Paul Keuker, who accidentally fell at Madison Square Garden during a Goose concert on June 20 has been determined.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
19 Aug. 2026 The boring rosters, the passive-aggressive press conferences, the endless parade of mediocre seasons — cresting and falling with an inexplicable 2021 and 2026 — has been brutal to watch.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
19 Aug. 2026
Noun
Featured in the streetwear brand’s fall ’26 preview is the Supreme x Timberland Diamond Plate 6-Inch premium waterproof boot in familiar wheat and black styles.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
18 Aug. 2026 Yet the aura of competence alone may carry Florida fans well into this fall.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fall
The Miami Dolphins stumbled through a lopsided preseason loss to the New York Giants, sustained a key injury and continued sorting through roster questions before the season opener.
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Jeff Kleinman,
Miami Herald,
24 Aug. 2026
Most injuries occurred as residents were tossed from beds or stumbled in the dark; trains and airport links were briefly disrupted, a Tokyo water main burst, and hundreds lost power.
But microscopic skeletal details also revealed a decent percentage of these reptiles didn’t only succumb to the food chain.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
20 Aug. 2026
The researchers said this means that the current controls by AI companies are prone to being disabled by misbehaving AI and at risk of succumbing to a blitz of AI attacks.
The researchers’ models suggest that areas near the escarpment could have lost as much as 8 kilometers of rock, with erosion decreasing farther away from the ancient cliff.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Aug. 2026
An early positive working relationship has been struck with Ross Wilson, the sporting director, and the pair usually speak multiple times every day, although their volume of conversations may decrease slightly once the transfer window closes.
Fully unrolled, the canvas was the size of the cargo container, looking like a dust storm descending over a desert town.
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Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
20 Aug. 2026
No other spacecraft has ever descended into the moon’s shadowy south polar craters, although NASA did crash a rocket into one in 2009 and watched a resultant plume of water vapor burst out.
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Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
20 Aug. 2026
The researchers’ models suggest that areas near the escarpment could have lost as much as 8 kilometers of rock, with erosion decreasing farther away from the ancient cliff.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Aug. 2026
The court dismissed the case against her manager, who also lost his job.
The siblings inherited the Lakers through the Buss Family Trust after their father died in 2013, though their ties to the organization extended well beyond ownership.
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Law Murray,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2026
Fedorov is right to say ideals should not die in warfare, or why else fight?
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