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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 fall out
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
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
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Verb
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
Noun
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fall out
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
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Simmons has shown flashes of big-time potential and Indiana could look into the idea of bringing him on board and giving him a chance to prove himself with Haliburton sidelined.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 June 2025
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Meteorologists are losing a sophisticated tool that many say has proved invaluable when monitoring and forecasting hurricanes.—
Matthew Glasser,
ABC News,
28 June 2025
Noun
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Duchess Meghan is clapping back after blowback for a viral video of her dancing with Prince Harry.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
17 June 2025
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The tariff idea met quick blowback from entertainment insiders who denounced them as unenforceable and out of touch with the globally networked way that movies are produced and viewed.—
Ali Martin,
Christian Science Monitor,
14 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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After weeks of defense attorneys fighting in court for Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States, the Trump administration brought him back on June 7 to face federal human smuggling charges.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
26 June 2025
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Gastrointestinal Effects By far, the most common side effects patients will have will be gastrointestinal side effects like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and constipation.—
Omer Awan,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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Taking a magnesium supplement by mouth can cause side effects like stomach pain, nausea, and diarrhea.—
Health,
Health,
16 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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The school board, backed by other parents, had argued that opt-out provisions were impractical.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
27 June 2025
Noun
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Scientists think that this light comes from the biomolecular reactions that generate energy, which create photons as by-products.—
Conor Feehly,
Scientific American,
16 June 2025
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The term wife guy is a by-product of several converging trends.—
Jeremy Gordon,
The Atlantic,
9 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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“Fall out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fall%20out. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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