Fallout

//ˈfɔlˌaʊt//

"Fallout" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Strontium 90: One of the radioisotopes of strontium; part of radioactive fallout, harmful to human health.

He made a farcical attempt to save face during the fallout of his sex scandal.

This way to the fallout shelter.

There was some fallout.

The primary culprits in eutrophication appear to be excess nitrogen and phosphorus—from sources including fertilizer runoff and septic system effluent to atmospheric fallout from burning fossil fuels—which enter waterbodies and fuel the overgrowth of algae, which, in turn, reduces water quality and degrades estuarine and coastal ecosystems.

Countries want to stem the spread of the virus but limit the economic fallout.

Tom built a fallout shelter.

Tom has built a fallout shelter.

Tom is going to build a fallout shelter.

U.S. stocks opened sharply lower Thursday as global investors fret over the coronavirus outbreak and its economic fallout.

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It was 5 February 2010 and Safdar had already dealt with the fallout of one explosion that day: an hour before, a motorbike laden with explosives had slammed into a bus carrying Shia Muslims to a religious procession.

On 26 April 1986 the reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located in the Soviet Union near Pripyat in Ukraine exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area.

Psychological fallout in the shadow of terrorism

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