falling behind
Example Sentences
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“The penalty for falling behind is, in theory, increasingly irrelevance and, eventually, bankruptcy.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Order intake for the Luce electric vehicle and the Amalfi remain low, with the latter falling behind order-intake targets, Berenberg says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Syarifah Hatifah, the 57-year-old vice principal of a junior high school in provincial capital Pontianak, fears some of her nearly 600 pupils may be falling behind.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Now, six years on, charity Llamau is warning a lack of long-term government support means Wales risks falling behind the rest of the UK.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
We started falling behind and the only one on the floor looking good was Brothers.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
