as in decrease
the amount by which something is lessened
the falloff in sales was more than the store could weather and so its closing was inevitable
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as in to curve
to turn away from a straight line or course
the coastline falls off toward the north after you round the bay
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Recent Examples of falloff
Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
That’s after a $100 million bow the previous weekend, for a roughly 72% decline – but that’s due to the fact last weekend was a four-day holiday, so a larger falloff was expected.
—Mark Hughes, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
CBS News, 20 Apr. 2025
The poster suspects the ice fell off an aircraft flying by.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
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Noun
All numbers five-on-five, via Natural Stat Trick This is an extreme falloff in performance.
—Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
That’s after a $100 million bow the previous weekend, for a roughly 72% decline – but that’s due to the fact last weekend was a four-day holiday, so a larger falloff was expected.
—Mark Hughes, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Verb
That raises the possibility that that – that Gary Cohn raised there that activity might look artificially high in the initial and then, by the summer, might fall off, because people had bought it all and brought it forward.
—CBS News, 20 Apr. 2025
The poster suspects the ice fell off an aircraft flying by.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for falloff
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That target implies a 14.2% decrease from Apple’s latest close.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
14 Apr. 2025
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About 19% of Chicago’s adult homeless population — excluding migrants — reported having a physical disability, a 4% decrease compared with a year earlier, according to a 2024 report from the DFSS.—
Rebecca Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Concave tiles, which curve inward, and convex tiles, which curve outward, are installed at different levels along the seawall.—
Sara Pezeshk,
The Conversation,
16 Apr. 2025
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After completing Slither Housing in 2000, an angular yet gently curved 105-unit apartment building in Japan’s Gifu prefecture, the husband-and-wife team increasingly turned its attentions to cultural architecture.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Such reductions would likely require cuts to Medicaid, the joint federal-state health care plan for low-income residents, but exactly how those cuts would be implementedhas yet to be decided.—
Danielle J. Brown,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Apr. 2025
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Obviously, income reductions aren't advisable but can come with an income-tax silver lining.—
Russ Wiles,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This is a result of a profit-first capitalist system in crisis in the epoch of imperialism’s decline.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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Gold’s warning What’s more, the spike in gold prices this year has continued to signal a risk-off mentality among investors, as gold tends to rally during periods of decline in stocks.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
19 Apr. 2025
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That was the sharpest drop except for that seen at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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That also contributes to Alpha Direct's allure—many of the small companies that make these layers only make them in small drops.—
Scott Gilbertson,
Wired News,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Yet, the job is so enormous, he’s hardly made a dent.—
Nicole Russell,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Would a $3,500 U.S.-made iPhone make a dent in sales?—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Falloff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falloff. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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