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🧑‍🦲 To drop off 💔 To stop being friendly 🔗 To follow logically 🪖 To leave formation
to fall out

to fall out

9 4.4
To happen as a direct result of something
  • phrasal verb
  • /fɔl aʊt/
translation icon : resultar
  • Such programs, though, fall out of the mainstream of insurance-covered care.

And then the first step, we see that actually G&M; will fall out here.

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Examples

  • Well, it pretty much falls out of just comparing these two summations.

  • It's just the way things fell out.

    Gettysburg (1993)

  • We lost the first game, and then the second, too, to fall out of that tie for first.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • If I'd known how this would all fall out, I might have done things different.

    Killer Joe (2012)

  • And I think that's not going to fall out naturally of the complexity.

    The Royal Institution

  • The Big East had two teams fall out of the rankings: Rutgers and Louisville.

    Blog text (20)

  • Plus, things fall out of books: pressed flowers, locks of hair, clippings (usually obituaries or marriages), bookmarks, snapshots, postage stamps, love letters, receipts, and postcards.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Considering the unexpected turn of events, it was clear how the situation would fall out in the end.

  • After much deliberation, the committee finally reached a decision, and this is how it will fall out moving forward.

  • Due to recent developments, we can predict how the negotiations will fall out next week.

Synonyms

to follow
vsto fall out
560 1.4

To understand what someone says or explains

happens as a logical consequence instead of being tracked or understood

Antonyms

to diverge
19 6.8

To move apart and also become different, like roads or opinions

Surface Forms

fall out infinitive
falling out present participle
falls out third person singular
fell out past
fallen out past participle

Morphology

fall + out

The literal meanings of 'fall' (to move downward or happen) and 'out' (away/outside) give a clue of movement away from a group, so a learner could infer a general sense of leaving. However, the specific military usage 'leave formation/on order' is a specialized, conventionalized command and phrasal verbs with 'out' are variable in meaning, so the exact sense is not fully predictable without exposure.

Etymology

Fall out can mean 'to happen as a result' and may come from the idea of a result that simply falls out of a process, like fruit falling from a tree when it is ready. So a conclusion that 'falls out' is one that follows easily from the facts.