free-fell

past tense of free-fall

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for free-fell
Verb
  • The Buckeyes benefited from a pair of penalties, including a face mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The Buckeyes benefitted from a pair of penalties, including a face-mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.
    Joe Reedy, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • New data, meanwhile, showed that Chinese exports to the US plummeted again, but sales elsewhere surged.
    Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Their numbers plummeted as a result.
    Tom Langen, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the laconic tones of a police report, Ibargüengoitia investigates the murders and their motives, the society and the profession - the oldest of all, but no less mysterious for that - which precipitated them.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Outrage over the video, however, also was blamed for riots and the Defund the Police movement, which many now consider a mistake that might have precipitated a rise in violent crime in some cities (the statistics are often debated).
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Free-fell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/free-fell. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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