as in curving
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 falling off
But from middle age to retirement age of 65, there is considerable loss, and then the loss steepens in the 70s as if falling off a cliff.
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Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
Temperatures are expected to spike Friday into the upper 80s in the hottest places before falling off and becoming more seasonable into and through the weekend.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
Throughout the episode, the mystery of each unexplained incident occurred, including falling off a table while singing karaoke, getting his jacket singed by Barney for repeatedly calling Robin and meeting Trudy (Danica McKellar) while drunk in the women’s restroom.
—Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
The hilarious clip, shared on Instagram on Friday under the username @mostly_ghostly1, shows the poster lying by the edge of the bed, almost falling off of it, while her rescue pup, Mookie, sleeps right in the middle, snuggled up to her husband.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Allen Frank was recovering from complications from falling off the roof while cleaning the siding of the couple’s home in Rich Fountain in October.
—Bram Sable-Smith, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
Matt Remick falling off a water taxi outside the Excelsior?
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Getty Images Frankie Muniz will miss six to eight weeks of racing in the Nascar Craftsman Truck Series after falling off a ladder.
—Joseph Wolkin, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Come between mid-September and mid-October and the park is awash with color; the western larch in particular gets a lot of admirers as its needles turn yellow before falling off (which rarely happens to coniferous trees).
—Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 25 Aug. 2025
Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
Temperatures are expected to spike Friday into the upper 80s in the hottest places before falling off and becoming more seasonable into and through the weekend.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
Throughout the episode, the mystery of each unexplained incident occurred, including falling off a table while singing karaoke, getting his jacket singed by Barney for repeatedly calling Robin and meeting Trudy (Danica McKellar) while drunk in the women’s restroom.
—Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
The hilarious clip, shared on Instagram on Friday under the username @mostly_ghostly1, shows the poster lying by the edge of the bed, almost falling off of it, while her rescue pup, Mookie, sleeps right in the middle, snuggled up to her husband.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Allen Frank was recovering from complications from falling off the roof while cleaning the siding of the couple’s home in Rich Fountain in October.
—Bram Sable-Smith, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
Matt Remick falling off a water taxi outside the Excelsior?
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Getty Images Frankie Muniz will miss six to eight weeks of racing in the Nascar Craftsman Truck Series after falling off a ladder.
—Joseph Wolkin, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Come between mid-September and mid-October and the park is awash with color; the western larch in particular gets a lot of admirers as its needles turn yellow before falling off (which rarely happens to coniferous trees).
—Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for falling off
curving
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The eclipse maximum This magnificent view of the sun's disk was captured minutes after the local eclipse maximum, when 70% of the solar surface surface was hidden by the curving expanse of the moon in the skies above Dunedin in New Zealand.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
21 Sep. 2025
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Now operated by the 3rd generation of the Scott family, who still cook burn-barrel style on big cinderblock pits under the curving metal roof of the pit house.—
Robert F. Moss,
Southern Living,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Falling off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falling%20off. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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