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He said there was now a "race against the clock" to repair the power network before winter sets in and temperatures plummet.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

As exports plummet owing to a ban on U.S. wine and liquor, California lawmakers ask Quebec’s premier to sidestep the president, lift the prohibition and promote free trade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 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

“Forward-looking, one-year inflation expectations were already coming down quite dramatically in lockstep with lower energy prices, but they continued to plummet after that meeting,” he said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

I won’t be the only Hello Girl in America for much longer, and when the others return my stock will plummet.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

If you lie dead still and your pulse plummets, the algorithm might assume you’re in deep sleep—a reasonable deduction, but still a guess.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

But the questions the film confronts the viewer with, and the depths of American darkness it plummets to, are brash and critical.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 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

It plummets down towards the sunning man on the lawn.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Passengers described rushing the cockpit and a fight for control after the plane suddenly plummeted -- losing around 17,000 feet of altitude in the span of a minute, according to the Flightradar24 website.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Stocks plummeted after word leaked that speculator Jay Gould, who was trying to corner the gold market, had sold his stake in the metal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The Hawk T2 aircraft had been flying out of the RAF Valley base on Anglesey when it plummeted to the ground at nearby Pencarnisiog.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

In March 2000, as the bubble burst, shares of companies in the business of transmitting data, or networking, plummeted too.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Walter R. Echo-Hawk writes that Indian landholdings in the US had plummeted to 156 million acres by 1881.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The Philippines has struggled to restore routine childhood immunisation rates after years of plummeting coverage, which contributed to a polio resurgence in 2019 and recurring measles outbreaks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

She recites the names of the Mexicans Guthrie envisioned on the plummeting plane — Juan, Rosalita, Jesús and María — with tenderness, not pity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The two pushed for a programming overhaul, sending ticket sales plummeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

On the other hand, world sugar prices were plummeting.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson