fallen off

past participle of fall off
as in curved
to turn away from a straight line or course the coastline falls off toward the north after you round the bay

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Recent Examples of fallen off The show’s audience, both worldwide and in the United States, had fallen off in the fourth and fifth seasons. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026 Arkansas’ running game has fallen off A much grimmer running game story is the one at Arkansas. — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 State police said one person was reported to have fallen off a roof. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2026 If Jenn is low-hanging fruit for Victoria, Carmella is whatever’s fallen off the tree and spoiled on the ground. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026 The California condo is dying Condo construction in California has fallen off dramatically since the early 2000s, severely limiting access to the entry-level market for homeownership. — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026 So far, only a handful of restaurants have lost favor with the guide and fallen off the list, including Wyld in Beaver Creek and AJ’s Pit Bar-B-Q in Denver (even before it was engulfed in scandal). — Jonathan Shikes, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2026 As a shocking chart by the Wall Street Journal illustrates, the amount of capital spent on non-data center construction in the US has quite literally fallen off a cliff, while the capital deployed to build data centers soars into the stratosphere. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026 While riding a horse, the band on Cedarstaff's hat had fallen off. — Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 31 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fallen off
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  • Chase Meidroth hit a long fly down the left-field line that curved foul during a third-inning at-bat Tuesday against the Kansas City Royals.
    — LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
  • In a new paper published in Royal Society Open Science, mathematician Alain Goriely shows that even though the stylobate really is curved, the illusion doesn’t hold up.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Lots of layers frame the face, and curtain bangs can be easily swept to the side.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Nepal is recovering from devastating flooding in August that swept several villages, leaving more than 1,400 people dead and nearly 6,000 others missing.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

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“Fallen off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fallen%20off. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026.

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