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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
Julie Appleby, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
The state says nearly 18% of enrollees dropped coverage altogether, with older and rural residents being the most likely to fall out.
—Julie Appleby, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
News Desk, Artforum, 13 Feb. 2026
And the administration is still dealing with the fallout from its agents having shot and killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis — situations which have also emerged as major liabilities for the administration.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
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Verb
The state says nearly 18% of enrollees dropped coverage altogether, with older and rural residents being the most likely to fall out.
—Julie Appleby, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
The state says nearly 18% of enrollees dropped coverage altogether, with older and rural residents being the most likely to fall out.
—Julie Appleby, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
News of the potential scam comes as the Louvre continues to deal with the fallout of the October 2025 broad-daylight theft of $120 million worth of crown jewels, which remain unrecovered.
—News Desk, Artforum, 13 Feb. 2026
And the administration is still dealing with the fallout from its agents having shot and killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis — situations which have also emerged as major liabilities for the administration.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fall out
Verb
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Her grandparents are constantly bickering, worn down by the pressures of keeping the family hotel afloat.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 2026
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The choice not to pick a team has left fans bickering with each other.—
Mike Sullivan,
CBS News,
5 Feb. 2026
Verb
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But his man-of-the-people image has suffered some serious blows over the past year, and a corruption scandal has proved particularly damaging to a president elected on a promise to clean up politics.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
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In these squabbles, lies are told, stories are made up and the mantra that there are two sides to everything is proven false.—
Dave Lieber,
Dallas Morning News,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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When Loudermill first filed the lawsuits against the senators in 2024, then-Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, faced blowback for his decision to defend the lawmakers in court.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
14 Feb. 2026
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Did not expect to get the blowback.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2026
Verb
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For some people, dogs are a way to feel loved, to relieve pressures to have kids, to fight the drudgery of their job, to reduce the stress of the rat race and to connect with the outdoors.—
Margret Grebowicz,
Fortune,
13 Feb. 2026
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Ask a Native person why Native people have volunteered to fight in the US’s wars overseas, including in Korea, my homeland, and Vietnam, the most recent nation of origin of many of my refugee friends.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But Fishman and Redford are far more interested in whiz-bang filters and digital effects, distractions to appeal to short-form entertainment devotees, which had the ironic side effect of wildly shortening my interest.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Feb. 2026
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Some current obesity drugs have the side effect of losing muscle mass in addition to fat.—
Chris Hoffman,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
Verb
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However, some rank-and-file Democrats are still floating the idea of funding everything except ICE and Customs and Border Protection, arguing those agencies are already funded and should be isolated from other key government functions.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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Vedam’s supporters believe investigators fixated on him as the lone suspect at the expense of other legitimate leads, arguing that his ethnicity played a role in how authorities homed in on him in the early days of the case and at trial.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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And that if a by-product is tough decisions and players upset about being sent to the minors, well, that’s OK, too.—
Marc Topkin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Feb. 2026
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This reaction produces heat and water vapor as by-products, without carbon, nitrogen, or particulate emissions typically associated with fossil fuels.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Callie and Arizona: Another couple spatting over kids.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
9 Oct. 2025
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Mulroney, Ackerman, Snow, and Newman turn this story of spatting WAGS into an explosive, addictive watch.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Fall out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fall%20out. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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