falter

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However that previous head coaching experience was one reason he was brought to Los Angeles as as the Kings’ top assistant in 2024 since it made him an ideal fallback candidate should Hiller falter.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

Hopes the crucial waterway would be reopened have taken another hit as peace talks falter and cargo ships are attacked, but investors still have reason for hope.

From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026

That balance, she argues, is where many returning shows falter.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

SNPs are driving growth in Medicare Advantage at a time when the private-insurance alternative to Medicare is seeing its once-robust enrollment increases falter.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 6, 2026

But in the circle of Isengard, trapped and alone, it was not easy to think that the hunters before whom all have fled or fallen would falter in the Shire far away.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien