falling back
Example Sentences
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But the murky situation didn’t stop commenters from falling back on a cliché of cancellation: “I never liked his stuff anyway.”
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
But the peso has since depreciated again, falling back to pre-intervention levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Danny Leigh of the Financial Times awarded the film three stars, external, praising the chemistry between Holland and Zendaya but criticising the film's insistence on falling back on CGI-heavy action sequences.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Saudi exports via the Red Sea port of Yanbu approximately tripled to a record high of around four million barrels a day in the spring, according to analysts, before falling back slightly.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
They all kept flickering, changing, springing forward an hour, then falling back.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
