the act or process of going to a lower level or altitude
panicked during his first unassisted fall when his parachute's rip cord didn't respond to the first tug
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Verb
At the hospital, an insect fell from the girl’s shoe, and a staffer saw a cockroach crawling on her, the district attorney’s office said.—Los Angeles Times,
14 Oct. 2026 Six Flags Over Georgia will reopen as planned on Friday, days after a man fatally fell from its Goliath roller coaster, as the ride remains temporarily closed, the park said.—ABC News,
14 Oct. 2026
Noun
The jumpsuit is actually a re-edition of a leather style that first appeared in Hermès’s fall 1991 menswear collection.—
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Vogue,
13 Oct. 2026 Keeping things seemingly seasonal, The Lizzo Edit of Yitty by Fabletics designs includes just enough pieces for a transitional fall-to-winter wardrobe.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
13 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fall
Resendiz finished strongly, sending Mazoudier stumbling backward in the final minute.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Oct. 2026
Munyon's Paw-Paw, an alcoholic beverage dating to the early 1900s, has been resurrected by two longtime spirits industry veterans who stumbled upon its unusual history during a family outing.
As more and more people succumb to AI psychosis, horror movies are (as always) the first to dive into the repercussions.
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
16 Oct. 2026
The pair had a fractured, even abusive, relationship, depicted in a series of flashbacks, until Mitt chose to end his life in the sea rather than succumb to a terminal case of cancer.
The definitive study of feedback, Avraham Kluger and Angelo DeNisi’s meta-analysis of 23,663 observations, found that over a third of feedback interventions decreased performance.
These include gravitational forces, commonly known as G-forces, that increase or decrease the pressure riders feel on their bodies during rapid acceleration and deceleration.
But this morning an air of foreboding awakened me, and my little fishing barometer was already descending past the 29 mark.
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Gerald R. Hunter,
Outdoor Life,
15 Oct. 2026
Authorities say Riek and his passengers were flying to Menominee from Kenosha, and the NTSB said Riek reported icing on the wings and needed to descend.
As music factories and generative tools take over entry-level work, newcomers risk losing a vital foothold in the industry.
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Ben Croll,
Variety,
16 Oct. 2026
So instead of making teams whole each time, the NFL now just pays teams’ travel expenses for their international game under the rationale that every team will lose a home game—and, in turn, home game ticket revenue—during that time.
Israel wages war on childhood because a Palestinian child at play is already trespassing upon the future Israel has reserved for itself.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2026
The Tohono O’odham Nation said that even if construction were contained to the Roosevelt Reservation, driving onto tribal land to access the area still constitutes trespassing.
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Mikella Schuettler,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Aug. 2026
Composer Ghulam Mohammed died in 1968 after writing the songs, leaving Naushad to complete the background score.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2026
Ryder’s Law was reintroduced this year after another carriage horse collapsed and died in Central Park, and in a separate incident, tourist Romanch Mahajan, 18, died after falling off a carriage after the operator lost control.
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Claire Carter,
The Washington Examiner,
14 Oct. 2026
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