plummet
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The trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic closures led to even greater challenges for the city’s theater community as sales to live shows continued to plummet, arts grants were canceled and audiences dwindled.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
But it has been known to plummet in value just as quickly as it spikes.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
Who could have thought we could launch rockets to space and then catch them as they plummet back to earth?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Winning stocks can quickly plummet once “irrational exuberance is taken out of the stock,” Yardeni said.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026
All hope that this was merely an anomaly disappeared the next day, when the forces that had been battering the nation’s economy erupted in a panic on Wall Street that caused stock prices to plummet.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing plummet
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