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  • plural of drop.
  • present tense form of drop (3rd person singular).
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Plus, a Tesla-SpaceX merger gives Elon Musk a shortcut to his $1 trillion payday, and the University of Michigan drops first-semester grades to “curb a mental health crisis.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

While 72% of Year 6 children on average left school able to swim 25m in 2024-25, this drops to just 55% for schools with a higher proportion of disadvantaged children.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Yet Schoenbrun’s needle drops also seem to have been chosen to make the audience chuckle.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Facing rising costs for fuel and feed even as demand for his chickens drops, he recently had to freeze a third of his production for the first time ever.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

“Oh, it’s not until summer,” he says, and my heart drops.

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




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