fallback

Example Sentences

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“There’s no fallback mechanism here,” Musk told investors in January.

From The Wall Street Journal

Chait was an apparently safe fallback option — he is widely seen as well-liked, capable and loyal.

From Los Angeles Times

Kyiv, lacking funding and access to enough sophisticated weapons, has turned to balloons as an inexpensive fallback option that comes with an asymmetric advantage in the form of local wind patterns.

From The Wall Street Journal

Theoretical models have long suggested that this fallback can turn the neutron star into a black hole.

From Science Daily

The authors argue that scavenging was not an occasional fallback, but a core survival strategy repeated throughout human evolutionary history.

From Science Daily