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Those worries have caused Netflix’s stock price to plummet 41% in the last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

Most comedies plummet halfway through their second act, when the jokes get stale, and studios demand some kind of emotional stakes.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

But it is having a devastating effect on rural junior schools - and Kaliluni Primary is one of more than 2,000 across the East African nation now facing possible closure as enrolment numbers plummet.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Welltower spent more than $40 billion over the following six years to acquire tens of thousands of senior-housing units, while many rivals retreated when the pandemic caused senior-facility occupancy rates to plummet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

She just had to trust he wouldn’t let her plummet to her death.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

She doesn’t need the imprimatur of an established brand to maintain an audience; as trust in institutions plummets, such affiliations can even be a turnoff.

From Slate ● May 6, 2026

Scientists warn that as humans move more activities off-Earth, more debris will fall to Earth, polluting as it plummets.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

Kyndryl stock plummets as the company’s chief financial officer leaves amid a review of its accounting practices.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

Dual-listed automaker Stellantis plummets by 15% after guiding for heavy losses, knocking indexes in both Paris and Milan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

The wood stairs are damp and rickety, but Babs plummets down them, hanging on to the railing, occasionally calling for me to hurry.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

According to an annual government report, the number of wiretaps obtained by DHS — often to investigate drug trafficking — plummeted to 23 in 2025, from 133 the previous year.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

Public support for a total ban on handguns in the home had plummeted.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

Don’t miss: ‘They cut off online access’: My mother’s bank balance plummeted after her death.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

The number of 25-year-olds owning their own home has plummeted from 43% in the mid 1980s to just 15%.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

He plummeted into sleep, the only place he could pretend he wasn’t blind, the only place he could pretend he still had everything he’d lost.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

Scottish Conservative MP Andrew Bowie said "plummeting teacher numbers and spiralling levels of school violence" had made it a difficult year for pupils.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

And later: why Bitcoin’s plummeting price is costing Eric Trump hundreds of million of dollars.

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026

In the Need to Know newsletter, Barbara Kollmeyer explained how one veteran trader was buying energy stocks even as oil prices were plummeting.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026

Tower Optical, a near 100-year-old binocular-viewer company, faced plummeting revenue as people stopped carrying coins, prompting new owners to modernize payment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

Down went the robot, plummeting into the treetops below.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown