How to Use fall for in a Sentence
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New Zealand home prices fell for the third straight month in June, nearly hitting a three-year low.
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Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
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Semiconductors fell for a second day in a row, weighing on the latter two benchmarks.
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Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
2 July 2026
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Those interviews suggest that donors seeking to celebrate America fell for a bait-and-switch that, if true, could have violated various criminal statutes.
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ABC News,
2 July 2026
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Fire Country is returning this fall for Season 5 which, as Deadline revealed exclusively, will be shorter, consisting of 13 episodes.
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Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
29 June 2026
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Forever, whose first season won a Peabody Award and was, according to Netflix, viewed nearly 20 million times in its two months on the platform, introduces a privileged Black boy who falls for a working-class girl.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
29 June 2026
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In May, China's retail sales fell for the first time since the pandemic, official figures showed, while data from the 618 shopping festival, which ran from mid-May through mid-June, showed a sharp slowdown in sales growth.
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Anniek Bao,evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
29 June 2026
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In the film, Jolie steps into the role of filmmaker—and mother-of-one—Maxine Walker, who falls for her cinematographer, Anton (Louis Garrel), after she's diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
29 June 2026
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McAtee has been with the label for 15 years and won an Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy last fall for the hit AppleTV+ and Lionsgate series, The Studio.
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Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
30 June 2026
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