Verb
resistance from native forces was greater than expected, and the invading army was forced to fall back
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Noun
Also in attendance were Nina Dobrev, Billie Lourd, Alex Edelman, Donald De Line and Jim Rash, with the latter co-starring in Fly Me to the Moon as a filmmaker hired to help stage the moon landing as a fallback plan.—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2024 Negotiators are still trying to move talks forward, but some lawmakers in the president's own party are growing anxious and pressing the White House for a fallback plan.—Abc News, ABC News, 27 June 2024
Verb
In March 2006, the small rocket lifted off for the first time and cleared the launch pad at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands before falling back to Earth and crashing into a reef.—Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024 The Astros, though, have more muscle memory of winning on which to fall back than the Mets do.—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for fallback
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