Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for free-falling
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While polls had shown religious youth plummeting nearly 20% from 2007 to 2024, by 2025, Gen-Z church attendance was ticking back up.—
Amy DeLaura,
The Washington Examiner,
24 Sep. 2025 -
The industry has struggled to adapt since voters agreed to legalize recreational marijuana in 2016, due to overproduction and plummeting prices.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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On Halloween of 2022, just weeks into the new school year, senior Ehni Ler Htoo was making his way through the halls of Proctor High School in Utica, New York, when a fellow student lurched at him from behind, repeatedly plunging a 9-inch hunting knife into his back.—
Tonya Simpson,
ABC News,
24 Sep. 2025
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Skyrocketing housing costs may be swaying Americans from having children, contributing to plunging birth rates in the country, data suggests.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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In 2007, Hamas violently seized control of Gaza, precipitating a split with the West Bank that continues to this day.—
Hussein Ibish,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
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But annual revenue fell back to $104 million by 2022, and the company was unprofitable in the post-pandemic landscape, precipitating the bankruptcy filing.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
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Netflix released its first teaser of the movie on Instagram July 1, as audiences heard Bader and Blyth speak in character as Poppy and Alex for the first time in a voiceover with footage of waves crashing against a rock.—
Jen Juneau,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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The driver also brake-checked the officer, but the officer managed to avoid crashing into the back of the Buick, according to police.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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Those traditional systems are now collapsing alongside aquifers, and ancient settlements in Yazd in central Iran, Kerman in southeast Iran, and Khorasan in northeastern Iran have been abandoned as qanats dried up, aquifers caved in, and land subsided.—
Nik Kowsar,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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Some of the homes now collapsing were once a few lots back from the beach, local residents told USA TODAY.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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Outdoor Voices, once the toast of the category, faded into restructuring, wiping out its entire social media presence.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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At least 61,000 people living in the Gaza Strip have died in Israel’s subsequent military campaign aimed at wiping out Hamas and recovering the hostages.—
Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Free-falling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/free-falling. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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