drops
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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
More than a dozen aerial assets, including helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, were assigned to the blaze, performing retardant and water drops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
He runs his business by the “humanistic capitalism” he derived from ancient philosophers whose names he casually drops in conversation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
“There’s hundreds of traders passing through each day. Raw silk from Ceretos, gold and voulay drops from Antiok.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
