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
The team found that the accretion rate, or rate at which material from the donor star falls onto the white dwarf, has to fall within a fairly narrow window to allow an AIC to occur.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
16 Sep. 2026 Optimism fell 26 percentage points in India to 50% and 16 points in China to 56%.—
Andrea Shalal,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2026
Noun
Does the cost of an answer fall with use instead of holding constant?—
Charles Yeomans,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2026 Simple knits are the backbone of a fall wardrobe, and the Zesica V-neck Sweater has the understated look that Rag & Bone does so well.—
Rosie Marder,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fall
The New Jersey native succumbed to organ failure that led to cardiac arrest, the New York Times reported Friday.
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Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
18 Sep. 2026
The inherent challenge in making films dealing with progressive illness is not succumbing to an inescapably formulaic structure that can’t help but go with the territory.
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Michael Rechtshaffen,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Sep. 2026
They’ve been assembled for a brain-breaker of a misfired melodrama, at first darkly amusing, before plunging headlong into soap opera-style twists and a general sense of heavy depression that no one can shake.
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Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
14 Sep. 2026
But Democratic Speaker Willie Brown had a Republican supporter, Paul Horcher, who voted to retain Brown as speaker, plunging the two parties into a yearlong fight for control.
This type of reinforcement can not only disrupt barking at that moment but also decrease unwanted behaviors.
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BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Sep. 2026
This will decrease temperatures across the entirety of Central and Northern California, brining partly cloudy skies to the Central Valley and even some briefly overcast conditions to areas north of Sacramento.
New characters are introduced, many interesting details are offered, yet the narration never loses its focus, every sentence adding to the characters’ mounting sense of powerlessness in the face of such a tragic death.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Sep. 2026
And last Sunday, in these pages, Coulter lamented losing his unfettered discretion on where to shelve books.
The Tohono O’odham Nation said that even if construction were contained to the Roosevelt Reservation, driving onto tribal land to access the area still constitutes trespassing.
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Mikella Schuettler,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Aug. 2026
The Tohono O'odham Nation said that even if construction were contained to the Roosevelt Reservation, driving onto tribal land to access the area still constitutes trespassing.
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