drop
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Emma was more than half in hopes of Mr. Elton’s having dropt a hint.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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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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