FALL OUT 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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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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Amid the fallout, Macklemore announced plans to headline a Free Palestine Tour, which is set to kick off in Europe later this month. — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026 The policy, however, risks a downshift in hiring and an uptick in the unemployment rate, though such fallout typically takes hold after a lag time lasting several months. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fall out

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Verb

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

Verb

Finding people at high risk of incubating the Bundibugyo virus, also known as contact tracing, has proved difficult in Congo.

— CONSTANT SAME BAGALWA, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
Finding people at high risk of incubating the Bundibugyo virus — also known as contact tracing — has proved difficult in Congo.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of prove

Verb

Kosovo has criticized the verdicts as unjust, maintaining that the KLA, which Thaci had led before entering politics, fought against Serbian oppression.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
His emphasis on fighting crime, his anti-left agenda and his confrontations with the Supreme Federal Court and Brazil’s political establishment directly appeal to issues that have mobilized Bolsonaro’s base for years.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 2 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

Verb

Marc Elias has argued dozens of cases around mail-in balloting and election access across the country and in front of the Supreme Court over the last decade.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026
His complaint argues that the plural title invites audiences to suspect a second culprit besides Mun.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of argue

Noun

But after six months of boiling, pulping, pressing and tinkering, a project in southeastern Turkey has turned roughly 300 kilograms of the agricultural by-product into sheets that can be stitched, folded, printed, woven and worn.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026
The grade, in his classroom, is a by-product of learning rather than a substitute for it.

— Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 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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