fallback
Example Sentences
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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.
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
Yet that’s more of a long-term story, he said, adding that the recent spike and fallback in silver prices looked more typical of short covering in futures and options markets.
From MarketWatch
The trick is building a little wiggle room in your budget for them—so that a fallback meal feels like a relief, not a splurge.
From Salon
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