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
  • All of sudden, the murder rate has plummeted.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
  • After Week 1’s road loss in Green Bay, the Lions plummeted to +1700 — only to steadily climb back up the odds board.
    Scott Phillips, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • So did Fergie, with other affairs that became public knowledge and precipitated the divorce.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 23 Sep. 2025
  • His September proclamation and January refinement precipitated today’s constitutional system, a system based fundamentally on the proposition that all Americans are born equal.
    Akhil Reed Amar, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Free-fell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/free-fell. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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