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By now, though, many have exhausted those fallbacks and fallen into debt.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2023

Software companies know full well that almost no one reads these things, so they know they can safely stuff all the legal fallbacks they wish into their texts.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2020

He added that “even with the fallbacks, we are not sure we’ll have enough to get to Sunday of this week.”

From Fox News • Apr. 20, 2020

If Smoak bombs out, well, they would have Montero and Jaso as fallbacks at first.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2012

The fallbacks are a pair of retread Ortizes, Ramon and Russ.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2010