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Chandor isn’t sure what she’d do if Chonkers tried to plop down somewhere else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

“You don’t take somebody from the industrials world and plop them in a media company,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

They can often be identified from the distinctive plop sound they make when they dive into the water.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2024

They plop down in most of their destinations accidentally, since Widgit, the map’s keeper, is an inept navigator.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2024

Pri and Donna shuffle into the room and they both plop down on Chantal’s bed, yawning and rubbing their eyes.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi

If, say, a housing development plops down where you live, you are forced to wander.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

But instead of worrying about giving the audience too much of a good thing with a sequel, Feig plops another heaping scoop of melodrama onto the viewer’s plate.

From Salon ● May 3, 2025

In one episode, he dances into the kitchen, shouts “What’s up, party people?” and plops a basket of freshly folded laundry on the floor.

From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

Joy plops down a chicken sandwich food truck, with plans to add a brick-and-mortar restaurant at the corner of 11th Avenue and East Pine Street in the fall.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

Lena plops down extra hard on her lap.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

In Santa Monica, when our Waymo showed up, my wife got in the back while I plopped into the front passenger seat—the better to play with the cabin controls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Molina plays Sam Cooper, a retired engineer — that will be important — being brought grumbling to the Boroughs, a posh, city-sized retirement community plopped down in the middle of the Southwestern desert.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

It plopped itself into the middle of the fight last week, saying that Warner was legally and ethically bound to re-engage with Paramount in search of a higher payout for stockholders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

I plopped myself into a chair near the front of Gate 18D on Jan. 25 at Sacramento International Airport, taking a final swig of my 32-oz Diet Coke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026

“I will sleep with the fireplace poker in my hands,” I was telling Aunt Kitty as I plopped down on the lumpy feather bed, the heavy iron bar across my lap.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

You can pace around the living room when you’re watching TV instead of plopping down on the couch.

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

Instead of plopping us into an eternity in media res, with its own rules and regulations already in place, Freyne introduces something novel to this process: a choice.

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025

For solo travelers or couples, that means plopping down next to strangers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

“It’s been the butt of jokes in every group ski chat I’ve participated in,” Highland Park resident Ethan Ayer said of the idea for heli-skiing, the term for plopping skiers on mountaintops via helicopter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

On the way back home, big fat raindrops started plopping on the windshield.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney