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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Verb
As darkness falls later that evening, the open coastal landscape provides excellent visibility for Perseid meteors.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
15 July 2026 The couple fell ill in a Medici villa in Poggio a Caiano, near Florence, an area dotted with marshes and rice fields — ideal habitats for mosquitoes that can carry malaria.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
15 July 2026
Noun
Students selected will receive scholarships via a tuition deduction from courses starting in fall 2026.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
14 July 2026 But when the time came last fall, the board didn’t have five finalists willing to have their names announced publicly, Hadley told the Idaho Statesman.—
Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
14 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for fall
The first version stumbled spectacularly—employees persuaded it to stock novelty tungsten cubes and sell them at a loss—but later iterations became considerably more competent.
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Victor Dey,
Forbes.com,
20 July 2026
But then our son stumbles into the room and burrows between us, his warmth radiating right alongside my light.
Atlantia was the controlling shareholder in motorway operator Autostrade per l’Italia at the time of the disaster which killed 43 people when their vehicles plunged from the flyover.
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CNN Money,
CNN Money,
16 July 2026
The satellites would only survive about 20 minutes before ultimately plunging to their fiery doom reentering Earth’s atmosphere.
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Lee Billings & Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
16 July 2026
Since then, no one has been cited, trespassed or arrested for bringing weapons into the park, city and police officials told the Orlando Sentinel.
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Cristóbal Reyes,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 July 2026
In August, Denver fined GFI $140,000 for letting the building become a magnet for vandals, vagrants and urban explorers who trespass and post videos on TikTok.
Tuesday’s death also marked at least the 46th person to die while in custody at the Sacramento County Main Jail or RCCC since January 2021, according to data compiled by The Sacramento Bee.
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Daniel Hunt,
Sacbee.com,
15 July 2026
As beta-amyloid levels rise in the brain, tangles of proteins called tau begin gathering inside brain cells, causing neurons to collapse and die.
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