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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fall backverb

    fall backwards and down

  2. lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behindverb

    hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

  3. fall backverb

    move back and away from

    "The enemy fell back"

  4. fall back, lose, drop off, fall behind, recedeverb

    retreat

  5. fall back, resort, recurverb

    have recourse to

    "The government resorted to rationing meat"

  6. relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall backverb

    go back to bad behavior

    "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"

Wiktionary

  1. fall backverb

    To retreat.

Wikipedia

  1. fall back

    Dear Jayne is a R&B/pop trio from Atlanta, Georgia. Their debut album, Voice Message, was originally scheduled to be released in March 2008 but has been cancelled indefinitely. One single scheduled to be on the album, "Rain", broke onto the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, peaking at number 99.

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  1. fall back

    Fall back generally means to retreat or to withdraw. In various contexts, it can also mean relying on something for support or emergency aid, to return to a former behavior out of comfort or safety, or to revert to a previously established status.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fall back in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fall back in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of fall back in a Sentence

  1. Nick Hague:

    As it rips us away from the rocket, once those thrusters are done. We're like if you throw a baseball up in the air, it's going to follow this ballistic trajectory, that weightlessness was when we were peaking out and getting ready to fall back down to the Earth.

  2. Karen Richon:

    Think about throwing a ball straight up in the air, as hard as you can ; it starts out very fast, but slows down as gravity pulls it back towards Earth, eventually stopping at its peak and then returning to the ground, just like the ball, James Webb is slowing down, and, if we allowed it, would eventually stop and fall back towards Earth.

  3. Peter Shirlow:

    I'm not saying there won't be some sporadic violence, but simply we no longer have the conditions of 1968. During each crisis, people have sabre-rattling and said we will fall back into the past, I have never seen any evidence of that.

  4. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier:

    We in Europe bear a joint responsibility for ensuring that we do not fall back into a nationalism of single states.

  5. Wayne Kaufman:

    Everyone is surprised, and I'm definitely pleased, but the question is, how can inflation be so low when GDP is so high? Either this is just a one-off and GDP will fall back dramatically, or we'll see a pickup in inflation, which could put more pressure on the Fed.


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