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drop

[drop] / drɒp /








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Qantas reported a 20% drop in annual net profit for the year through June.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Maybe next time I’ll try the other approach: I’ll board whenever I feel like it and drop my suitcase in the first open slot I see.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

Both main contracts fell around one percent Tuesday, extending the previous day's drop that saw Brent give up almost six percent.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

It also notes that she "wore a drop pearl earring belonging to the late Princess Diana".

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

But he had come too far now to drop the matter.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

Johnny Depp plays “Ebenezer” in a new version of Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”; the controversial, critically acclaimed “Downstate” opens on Broadway; U2 drops its first album of new music in nearly a decade; and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

Read: Micron, Sandisk and other AI stocks see steep drops: ‘Investors don’t like uncertainty’

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

After recent sharp drops for some Chinese tech stocks, Beijing is trying to prop them up -- seeing the sector, and in particular AI, as a central strategic priority.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

I’d say a bigger problem for Peter is that he drops $300 on some vinyl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

She usually isn’t here on Fridays, but sometimes she drops in.

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

Weber says the price cattlemen are paid by meatpackers has dropped roughly $300 per head since the plant closed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

You can still hear the sweat-soaked energy of Charli XCX's 365 remix and relentless pulse of 2024 hit mr useless on her latest record, which dropped on Friday.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Then he said he meant stopping completely, and my stomach dropped.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

Nvidia’s stock dropped more than 4% Monday, after the board said it would open an investigation into its chief executive being the “target of a foreign intelligence effort.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Half-filling Renn’s cooking skin with water, he hung it by the fire; then, using a split branch, he dropped in red-hot stones to heat it up, and added the plucked and jointed willow grouse.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Humphrey Dolittle of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, who “ſuddenly dropt down in the Street, and inſtantly expired” on Jan. 7, 1763.

From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2020

“I was inclined by my genius from childhood to the love of antiquities,” he writes, “and my Fate dropt me in a countrey most suitable for such enquiries.”

From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2017

So with that intent, one dropt on our starboard side called the la Fue and the other dropt on our larboard side called the Doubtable, they kept a very hot fire for some time.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2010

And then a spasm constricted her mouth for an instant: as it passed away she turned and left the room, and so did I. Neither of us had dropt a tear.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Emma was more than half in hopes of Mr. Elton’s having dropt a hint.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

Nvidia stock was dropping amid further scrutiny on CEO Jensen Huang.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

"At the moment, I don't care about it so much," Jeglertz said when asked about Chelsea dropping points.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

After dropping a season-high 53 points during the Lakers’ 124-118 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday, Doncic is averaging 40.1 points, 7.8 rebounds and 7.7 assists in a scoring binge for the ages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

Demand for bars and coins also fell, dropping 19% from a year earlier to 268 tons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Even now, dropping off to sleep, I felt it, and fought it.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo


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