FALLOUT Synonyms: 118 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

Definition of fall out

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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as in to prove

to come to be I had planned to have a sports career, but things fell out otherwise

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noun

as in blowback

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Recent Examples of fall out

Verb

Another friend, Marie Rivera, 39, said Perez had fallen out with her family and had even stayed with her for a brief time. — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026 Court dances fell out of fashion as monarchs fell from power. — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

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The doc’s trailer shows two of four Wiggin sisters looking back on the way their father forced them to form a band, the fallout when the album was dismissed, and the surprising reappraisal of their music in recent decades. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2026 Weather fallout from the incoming Hurricane Isaias has affected Georgia high school football as games all over the southern and western parts of the state were moved to Thursday night. — Jack Leo, AJC.com, 9 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fall out

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The two of them together, just 17 months apart, shared playlists, bickered over where to stop during Apple CarPlay calls, pulled up beside me and faded away with silly faces, encapsulating 20 years of my life in my rearview mirror.

— Robert Duffer, AJC.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Like law enforcement agents everywhere, they’re disposed to bickering about jurisdiction or pumping each other for off-limits information.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of bicker

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Abid Aziz Merchant of Sanat Initiative, one of the film’s producers, said the French release proved the story could not be shut down.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
Reese, who was the league’s defensive player of the year, came to Atlanta this offseason in a trade and proved to be a key reason the Dream advanced to the championship round.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of prove

Verb

Her body was found while clearing rubble and fighting a fire at the site, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the regional military administration, said Friday.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026
Eventually, Ley hopes, the results could help fight this side effect of vaccines and, by extension, encourage higher vaccination rates.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of fight

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Eventually, Ley hopes, the results could help fight this side effect of vaccines and, by extension, encourage higher vaccination rates.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026
With more widespread use, however, a rare, life-threatening side effect known as agranulocytosis (a severe reduction in white blood cells) emerged, prompting clozapine’s withdrawal from the market.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of side effect

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But the Amazon and Blue Origin founder argues that some politicians are blaming the wrong culprit.

— Bilin Lin, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2026
Canary Islands Film director Natacha Mora argues that the challenge is to balance international production growth with the capacity of the local industry and infrastructure.

— Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of argue

Noun

Clark notes that researchers can’t yet say whether unusual tidiness in Jonathan’s genes keeps him alive or is a by-product of something else entirely.

— Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Hydrogen, on the other hand, offers a cleaner way to run high-power applications, since its combustion produces water as a by-product and no carbon emissions.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of by-product

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Mulroney, Ackerman, Snow, and Newman turn this story of spatting WAGS into an explosive, addictive watch.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2025
Preparation has cultural and regional variations, but the seed is usually chewed with slaked lime and betel leaves, and chewing releases a red juice that's often then spat out.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2025

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