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fall back
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Princeton's WordNet
fall backverb
fall backwards and down
lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behindverb
hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
fall backverb
move back and away from
"The enemy fell back"
fall back, lose, drop off, fall behind, recedeverb
retreat
fall back, resort, recurverb
have recourse to
"The government resorted to rationing meat"
relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall backverb
go back to bad behavior
"Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
Wiktionary
fall backverb
To retreat.
Wikipedia
fall back
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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.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fall back in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fall back in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of fall back in a Sentence
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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- se rabattre, se replierFrench
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