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as in to throw
to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally I dropped the fly ball drop the anchor

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as in to lose
to fail to win, gain, or obtain the local hockey team has dropped two out of the last three contests

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noun

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as in bead
the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass a drop of water fell from the leaky faucet every few seconds

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as in depth
distance measured from the top to the bottom of something a drop of 10 feet from the roof to the ground

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as in dip
the act or process of going to a lower level or altitude the sudden drop of the plane really shook up the passengers

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Recent Examples of drop
Verb
Pair it with flats for a day at the office, or layer it over tights and boots when temperatures really drop this season. Clara McMahon, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025 The best way to protect yourself during an earthquake is to drop, cover and hold on, officials say. Ca Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
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Our designer children arrived in the next drone drop. Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025 And if Bitcoin’s history of big drops and even bigger rebounds is any indication, Silbert may be right. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for drop
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  • While much of last season was a lost cause due to Tua Tagovailoa being injured, the Dolphins still aren't throwing the ball downfield.
    Drew VonScio, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Or, take after Aniston by throwing them on with flip-flops and a basic T-shirt.
    Averi Baudler, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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  • The design featured a plunging V-neck design that stopped at her navel, a skirt decorated in fringe and floral appliqués placed throughout.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The graft and fraud investigations signal that state corruption which helped plunge Greece into a 2009-2018 debt crisis persists, despite reforms and tough austerity under three international bailouts.
    Angeliki Koutantou, Reuters, 7 Sep. 2025
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  • Nothing better than putting down the top and driving beautiful roads just after the rain stops and the air is powerfully charged by the nearby ocean, scrubbed clean.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, water levels at Lake Powell, one of the main water storage reservoirs for the Colorado River Basin, could fall low enough to stop hydropower generation at the reservoir by December 2026, according to the NOAA report.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
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  • These factors should never be a cause to abandon principles, but this is exactly what is occurring.
    Kimberly Ross, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This would come as Carr also plans on abandoning an effort to raise the agency's benchmark for high-speed internet from 100Mbps to 1Gbps.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
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  • National Weather Service meteorologists consider forecasting waterspouts during the late summer and fall whenever large, cool air masses overspread the waters of the Great Lakes.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Department of Buildings told CBS News New York and News 12 Long Island that a 10-by-10-inch section of the ceiling collapsed due to possible water damage, and pieces of the building fell on customers dining inside.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • He's witnessed countless episodes of passengers wearing noise-canceling headphones and earbuds walking through airport terminals, oblivious to their surroundings and putting themselves and others in danger.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • That proposal was canceled after bipartisan opposition in the Senate.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
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  • In the last four drives of the game, the Bengals ran 12 plays, went three-and-out every time and produced minus-23 yards.
    Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • To qualify for a portion of the county arts funding, organizations must be active 501(c)3 entities, located and operating in Milwaukee County, organized for the primary purpose of producing or presenting the arts, and open to the general public, according to the county's application terms.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • Report downed power lines to the police.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Polish airspace was violated by at least 19 Russian drones overnight, the country's prime minister said, in a torrent of activity that triggered a response from the NATO country's air force, which scrambled and downed several of the drones.
    Will Gretsky, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Drop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drop. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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