plummet
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Those worries have caused Netflix’s stock price to plummet 41% in the last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Most comedies plummet halfway through their second act.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Your core temperature continues to plummet because the chilled blood from your extremities returns to your heart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
But it is having a devastating effect on rural junior schools - and Kaliluni Primary is one of more than 2,000 across the East African nation now facing possible closure as enrolment numbers plummet.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Failure warnings were already flashing on my display, and my hit-point counter was starting to plummet.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Trade Desk plummets on weaker-than-expected first-quarter earnings and weak revenue guidance.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
She doesn’t need the imprimatur of an established brand to maintain an audience; as trust in institutions plummets, such affiliations can even be a turnoff.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
But the questions the film confronts the viewer with, and the depths of American darkness it plummets to, are brash and critical.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026
The USD index is up 0.9%, while gold falls 3.1% and silver plummets 7.6%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
He manages to seize the edge of an isle before he plummets to the lagoon below.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
The number of 25-year-olds owning their own home has plummeted from 43% in the mid 1980s to just 15%.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Many changes alienated some core diners and conservatives, prompting her to scrap much of her strategy as sales and profit plummeted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Response rates to its phone surveys, the primary tool for tracking employment status, have plummeted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Related: ‘They cut off online access’: My mother’s bank balance plummeted after her death.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
It skittered across the thatch and plummeted to the yard three storeys below.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Each attempt went bust when global economic downturns cratered the semiconductor market and sent chip prices plummeting.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Beijing, as we see, has put itself in the social-engineering business again, trying to hike its plummeting population numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
And later: why Bitcoin’s plummeting price is costing Eric Trump hundreds of million of dollars.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026
The controversies and poor punctuality led to Qantas plummeting in the industry benchmark Skytrax Awards to rank the world's 24th-best airline in 2024, its worst-ever ranking and down from 5th just two years prior.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Her face was lit with madness as she shrieked, plummeting toward Mark, who couldn’t believe what he was seeing.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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