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fallout

[fawl-out] / ˈfɔlˌaʊt /


NOUN
radioactivity
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The company said the CEO’s retirement and the fallout from the video were not related.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Her daughter, Caitlin, tells Aviv the story — evidence of the tragic fallout of deinstitutionalization, “a nationwide social experiment that did not go as planned.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Another sports writer, Shane Ryan, said the most direct fallout of the scandal around Trump was on the team itself.

From Barron's Jul. 7, 2026

Could the fallout create pressure that will put Infantino's position in doubt?

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

Back then the fallout had been sporadic and highly variable; some states had been nearly free of it, others became saturated.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Rising prices and a volatile currency have been among the major domestic economic fallouts of Moscow's four-year offensive on Ukraine, which has seen it hit with unprecedented packages of Western sanctions.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

The trail of damage from Patterson’s pet project includes money fights, family estrangement and bitter fallouts as friends turned on each other amid efforts to debunk or defend the footage over the years.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

Few fallouts have spilled out into the open in recent years – and those that did were picked over simply because they're so rare.

From BBC Mar. 10, 2025

Bejarano cited recent articles by Times critic Mark Swed and New Yorker critic Alex Ross that indicted boards for some newsworthy artistic fallouts.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2024

Singapore has been hit by a series of political fallouts of late. last week, transport minister S Iswaran and hotel tycoon Ong Beng Seng were arrested in a rare high-level graft probe.

From Reuters Jul. 17, 2023




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