fall about
Britishverb
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Lee’s price target of $263.66 implies room for the stock to fall about 16% from current levels.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Global smartphone shipments are forecast to fall about 14% this year, according to Counterpoint Research.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
Forecasters say U.S. new-vehicle sales will fall about 6.5% in the first quarter from a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Squibb plays the title character in “Eleanor the Great,” Scarlett Johansson’s film that came out this fall about a 94-year-old whose accidental lie grows to epic proportions after the media gets hold of the story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
They bore no lights, yet as they walked a shimmer, like the light of the moon above the rim of the hills before it rises, seemed to fall about their feet.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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