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- noun Plural form of
fallback .
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Examples
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Many dismiss the MBA as a proper waste of time, but you can't know that it's a waste unless you've gone through the program, and picked out the benefits and fallbacks for yourself.
Tatiana Lanteigne: Learning for Learning's Sake Tatiana Lanteigne 2011
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This is easily explained; the recipes are usually easy fallbacks that I don't even have a written recipe for anymore.
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This is easily explained; the recipes are usually easy fallbacks that I don't even have a written recipe for anymore.
Archive 2009-02-01 Laura 2009
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One of the fallbacks right-wingers always use is that “anytime we disagree with Obama and win an argument his supporters just call us racist” and you give power to that argument. mpowell says:
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Given how much I love one pot meals, that alone made the discovery thrilling, since I frequently mope around the house on summery afternoons, complaining about how I don't feel like making a meat main dish with 2 sides but yet am not in the mood for most of my one pot fallbacks.
My Delayed But Intense Love Affair With Tom Ka Gai Laura 2009
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Given how much I love one pot meals, that alone made the discovery thrilling, since I frequently mope around the house on summery afternoons, complaining about how I don't feel like making a meat main dish with 2 sides but yet am not in the mood for most of my one pot fallbacks.
Archive 2009-06-01 Laura 2009
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Thank God for the reliable fallbacks, the ongoing train wrecks that saved the slow news days.
AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE DAVID GOODWILLIE 2010
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We want you to analyze his ingress and escape routes, his fallbacks, his hides, all the things that even our best experts might miss.
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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If he walks away from touring, he has fallbacks, including painting (the National Gallery of Denmark is exhibiting 40 of his works) and writing (the first volume of his " Chronicles " memoirs was a hit; two more installments are expected.)
When to Leave the Stage John Jurgensen 2010
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We want you to analyze his ingress and escape routes, his fallbacks, his hides, all the things that even our best experts might miss.
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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