plummet
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Appeared in the October 2, 2025, print edition as 'Private-Sector Jobs Plummet'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025
Bloomberg put it this way: “Bankman-Fried’s Assets Plummet From $16 Billion to Zero in Days.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2022
He was a part of the pub rock band Plummet Airlines and The Favourites before he began playing bass in The Pogues in 1986.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2022
"I was part of an artist-run space called Plummet, situated on the 16th floor of a council block off City Road," she said.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2018
Plummet, plum′et, n. a weight of lead hung at a string, used for ascertaining the direction of the earth's attraction, and for sounding depths: a plumb-line.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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