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as in to bicker
to express different opinions about something often angrily
club members were soon falling out about how to spend the money they'd made washing cars
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Recent Examples of fallout
Tim Vernimmen, JSTOR Daily, 19 June 2025
After Musk’s dramatic and public fallout with President Trump earlier this month, longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon told The Washington Post that the Tesla CEO and president had a heated exchange that led to a physical altercation, which the White House denied.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 18 June 2025
Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 23 June 2025
The Baltimore Ravens let a chance at the AFC title game, quite literally, fall out of their hands.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
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Verb
While the asteroid’s sun-blocking fallout caused a period of severe cooling, the next big crisis sounds eerily more familiar: About 56 million years ago, the average temperature on the planet increased by up to 5 degrees Celsius, possibly due to greenhouse gas emissions from volcanic activity.
—Tim Vernimmen, JSTOR Daily, 19 June 2025
After Musk’s dramatic and public fallout with President Trump earlier this month, longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon told The Washington Post that the Tesla CEO and president had a heated exchange that led to a physical altercation, which the White House denied.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 18 June 2025
Noun
Chandler said during the fight, his pistol fell out of his waistband and the two of them began to struggle for the gun, police said.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 23 June 2025
The Baltimore Ravens let a chance at the AFC title game, quite literally, fall out of their hands.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fallout
Verb
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In 2012, surviving members of the Beach Boys reunited for a 50th anniversary album, which quickly hit the Top 10 before the group again bickered and separated.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 June 2025
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Vance memes, framing the vice president as the troubled child of bickering parents.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
Verb
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Venter said there was no evidence to prove that covid-19 had been manipulated in a lab, nor was there any indication the virus had been spreading before December 2019 anywhere outside of China.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 June 2025
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McVey is also an undefeated prospect who has proven to be a KO artist.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
Noun
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The political blowback was swift from moderate political parties, threatening the support of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.—
Jon McGowan,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
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Further, targeting scientists may trigger blowback given concerns regarding legality and morality.—
Jenna Jordan,
The Conversation,
19 June 2025
Verb
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Reggie Greer, who served as a senior advisor on LGBTQI+ Persons at the State Department in the Biden administration, remembers being in North Carolina during the 2016 bathroom bill fight.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2025
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As most skin care buffs know, hyaluronic acid is a holy grail humectant used in skin care and makeup to retain moisture, retain elasticity, and fight aging.—
Ariana Yaptangco,
Glamour,
26 June 2025
Noun
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Any burden on adults is, according to the ruling, merely a side effect of this legitimate regulation.—
Meg Leta Jones,
The Conversation,
27 June 2025
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Sonu matched or outperformed conventional treatments, with no reported side effects.—
Tanya Benedicto Klich,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
Verb
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Democrats, led by Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, had argued that in recent decades Congress gradually surrendered war-making powers to the president.—
Robert Jimison,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
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His attorneys had argued that he was manipulated by Blanchard, a victim of Munchausen by proxy, to kill her mom and should have his charges reduced to second-degree murder, according to The Springfield News-Leader.—
Michael Nied,
People.com,
27 June 2025
Noun
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The mineral oil in baby oil is a petroleum by-product.—
Julie Marks,
Verywell Health,
26 June 2025
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The most obvious by-product of that, for anyone who has used these, is that reasoning models take longer to generate answers.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
19 June 2025
Verb
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The first is that when U.S. soldiers returned from the war there, protesters spat upon them in disdain.—
Jonathan Zimmerman,
Foreign Affairs,
19 May 2016
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The flare comes after nearly a week of flares and coronal plasma ejections spat toward the planet that threatened disruptions to power and communications systems on Earth.—
Greg Wehner,
Fox News,
15 May 2024
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“Fallout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fallout. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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