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The violence has once again left victims’ families with a tumble of emotions — grief, anger, confusion.

As the US economy continues to open up, the April jobs report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the boom in delivery jobs has taken a tumble.

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The best ski helmets overall offer comfort, protection from the elements, and safeguarding from the unique types of impacts one might encounter when taking a tumble in the snow.

I’ve blasted through pow shots and have taken some big tumbles.

It wasn’t just the big players — customer service company Zendesk and security firm Okta also dropped Parler as a customer, furthering its tumble off the Web.

At any moment, the slightest loss in concentration could see a disastrous tumble.

His youngest son, Orange Scott, was a rough-and-tumble trickster and a terrible tease.

No friend of liberty can avoid the tumble back and forth between Burke and Paine.

Mandelbaum began her climb to the top of the crime world as a peddler on the rough-and-tumble, bustling streets of New York City.

Flecks of frosting tumble in slow motion to light on his belly, which gently swells beneath a black sweater.

He could hardly walk up the rickety front steps of the old tumble-down house, and his thirteen-year-old son had to help him.

A good man mixes with the world in the rough-and-tumble, and takes his share of the dangers, and the falls, and the temptations.

I shall be so afraid that the roof will tumble in, or somebody come down the chimney to catch me, that I shant sleep a wink.

The third skulker took advantage of the cessation of firing to tumble down from his perch and fly for his life.

I hope you will appreciate my devotion; in a tumble-down old house, near the ramparts.

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On this page you'll find 150 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tumble, such as: descend, dip, drop, flop, go down, and nose-dive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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