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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
Noun
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
The design featured a plunging V-neck design that stopped at her navel, a skirt decorated in fringe and floral appliqués placed throughout.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
That proposal was canceled after bipartisan opposition in the Senate.
In the last four drives of the game, the Bengals ran 12 plays, went three-and-out every time and produced minus-23 yards.
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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.
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.
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