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With their 2010 Super Bowl victory a one-off triumph, so far at least, and the team experiencing a fallow period since, their rise and fall is reminiscent of Leicester City, which in 2023 became only the second former Premier League champion to subsequently get relegated.
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Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
By the end of last decade, the Super Bowl had hit a more fallow period where advertisers gained the upper hand, and the process of selling out all the ad inventory sometimes took until just days before kickoff.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
The label kicks off a new phase of Hertz’s career, putting the end to a lengthy fallow period.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2024
What looked to facility owners in Kentucky like an irresistible opportunity to tap into a new line of business in an otherwise fallow period has turned into a nightmare.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024
This fallow period came during his mid-thirties, the age when most pro cyclists ride off into the sunset.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 3 July 2024
The post-Trump era has been a fallow period for protest music, though the current revival of campus activism could usher in an adjacent revival for the genre.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 10 May 2024
Following the Trump interview, Fallon had a creatively fallow period during the Republican's presidency when the host just could not rise to the cultural moment as his more political counterparts, CBS' Stephen Colbert, NBCs Seth Meyers and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel, did.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
The index went 512 trading days without a new record, the longest stretch since a fallow period of 1,375-sessions that ended in March 2013.
—Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
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Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
By the end of last decade, the Super Bowl had hit a more fallow period where advertisers gained the upper hand, and the process of selling out all the ad inventory sometimes took until just days before kickoff.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
The label kicks off a new phase of Hertz’s career, putting the end to a lengthy fallow period.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2024
What looked to facility owners in Kentucky like an irresistible opportunity to tap into a new line of business in an otherwise fallow period has turned into a nightmare.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024
This fallow period came during his mid-thirties, the age when most pro cyclists ride off into the sunset.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 3 July 2024
The post-Trump era has been a fallow period for protest music, though the current revival of campus activism could usher in an adjacent revival for the genre.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 10 May 2024
Following the Trump interview, Fallon had a creatively fallow period during the Republican's presidency when the host just could not rise to the cultural moment as his more political counterparts, CBS' Stephen Colbert, NBCs Seth Meyers and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel, did.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
The index went 512 trading days without a new record, the longest stretch since a fallow period of 1,375-sessions that ended in March 2013.
—Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
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“Fallow period.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fallow%20period. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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