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precipitous

adjective as in steep, falling sharply

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In recent weeks, with polls tight and the prospect of a second Trump term looming, shares of Trump Media have massively rebounded from a precipitous fall.

Today, the college finance landscape is like one of those video games where there is peril at every turn in the form of murderous interest rates and a precipitous middle area where folks are too poor to pay full price but too rich for aid.

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After a precipitous rise, the waterbed market dried up.

The legislation, which would have been a first in the United States, advanced in Sacramento as newspapers struggle with precipitous decline and Google battles in federal court over claims that it violated antitrust laws by illegally maintaining a monopoly on web searches.

The data compiled by Allegretto — which is adjusted for inflation and takes into account the "summers off" issue — shows that the drop in relative compensation has been even more precipitous for female teachers, decreasing from a 3.3% premium pre-1994 to a penalty of 21.4% in 2023.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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