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as in to bicker
to express different opinions about something often angrily
club members were soon falling out about how to spend the money they'd made washing cars
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Recent Examples of fall out
Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2025
The Fish have not come close to the top in the 21 seasons since, gradually falling out of relevance in MLB and in their own home market, thanks largely to chronic, continuing under-spending by ownership.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
CBS News, 11 Mar. 2025
Image The fallout has reverberated ever since, prompting Ukraine’s European allies to pledge further support.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2025
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Verb
Since then, the Jayhawks have a 12-11 record and have fallen out of the Top 25 completely.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2025
The Fish have not come close to the top in the 21 seasons since, gradually falling out of relevance in MLB and in their own home market, thanks largely to chronic, continuing under-spending by ownership.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
Her exit is the latest fallout from the billionaire owner's directive that the Post narrow the topics covered by its opinion section to personal liberties and the free market.
—CBS News, 11 Mar. 2025
Image The fallout has reverberated ever since, prompting Ukraine’s European allies to pledge further support.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fall out
Verb
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The 39-year-old victim and her boyfriend, identified by sources as 34-year-old Daquan Spence, bickered over smokes in their apartment on 155th St. near Baisley Blvd.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
6 Mar. 2025
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Without politics to bicker over or political visions to debate, the candidates mostly pitched themselves and their personal connections to the community.—
Jesse Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The screen has also proved useful for the goalkeepers playing behind Flick’s radical high line.—
Laia Cervelló Herrero,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
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This season, the answer is a resounding yes, with Roosevelt setting the standard of excellence and having one final game to prove it to the rest of California.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2025
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The subsidy proposal faced blowback when made public in May through legislation also sponsored by Commissioner Gilbert.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2025
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Trump Threatens Funding Cuts for Colleges This prompted immediate blowback from free speech advocates who accused the administration of violating the First Amendment by threatening pro-Palestine demonstrators with arrest and deportation.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
8 Mar. 2025
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Sympathy for Israelis has dropped in the past few years, as Israel has been led by a hardline right-wing government and, since the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, fought a war against the terror group in Gaza with high numbers of casualties.—
Ben Sales,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2025
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Listen to this article Environmental advocates are fighting an energy bill that Democratic leaders say will lower utility bills and further Maryland’s clean energy initiative.—
Rachel McCrea,
Baltimore Sun,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Both drugs have similar side effects, including dizziness and tiredness.—
Karen Berger, PharmD,
Verywell Health,
13 Mar. 2025
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More serious side effects from vaccination are extremely rare, according to the CDC.—
Neha Mukherjee,
CNN,
12 Mar. 2025
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The big picture: Democrats have hammered Trump and Elon Musk for their approach to slicing federal agencies, arguing the administration has cut positions and programs without a clear understanding of the consequences.—
Stephen Neukam,
Axios,
11 Mar. 2025
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Critics argue the spending has gotten out of hand, while services haven’t improved.—
Alexandra Glorioso,
Miami Herald,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Mental mistakes are often a natural by-product of a flexible, adaptive mind.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Left untreated, amino acid metabolic disorders can lead to a buildup of toxic by-products or a deficiency of essential nutrients.—
Jonathan Purtell,
Verywell Health,
10 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The first is that when U.S. soldiers returned from the war there, protesters spat upon them in disdain.—
Jonathan Zimmerman,
Foreign Affairs,
19 May 2016
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The flare comes after nearly a week of flares and coronal plasma ejections spat toward the planet that threatened disruptions to power and communications systems on Earth.—
Greg Wehner,
Fox News,
15 May 2024
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“Fall out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fall%20out. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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