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dropped

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verb

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

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of dropped
Adjective
That dichotomy, and a host of dropped passes and uncharacteristic penalties, prompted questions about rust after the game. Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2020 The dropped charges included felony drug possession, trespassing and resisting arrest for allegedly biting the officer, police said. Taylor Romine, CNN, 6 Dec. 2019 Gruden said the conditions were not an excuse, though the rain did appear to have an effect in the form of dropped passes and missed tackles. Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2019 Sunday’s setback — filled with dropped passes and botched field goals and missed opportunities and more postgame agitation — was the Bears’ fifth loss in their last six games. Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2019 See All Example Sentences for dropped
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dropped
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  • The majority of the trees that were felled were ficuses.
    Vanessa Romo, NPR, 30 Apr. 2025
  • An animal sanctuary in Washington reported losing 20 big cats including cougars and bobcats in late 2024 from the virus, while a harbor seal and Chilean flamingo were felled at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo in January.
    Karen Kucher, Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025
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  • In the first day or so after the snow stopped falling, Unified Government crews focused on clearing major thoroughfares.
    Alecia Taylor, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Details matter, as the characters in Season 2 never stopped reminding us.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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  • They were abandoned in 1959 when outpaced by technology.
    Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • In April 2023, Blue Island leveled another complaint against the nonprofit asking a judge to declare the property in violation of the city’s building codes, dangerous, unsafe and abandoned, court records show.
    Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
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  • In March alone, shares have plunged more than 24%.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The stock has plunged nearly 27% in 2025.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 20 Mar. 2025
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  • With over 1,000 gins produced in the UK, the British gin market has become highly competitive.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Instead, over the past month, both sides have produced their worst games of the season — sometimes simultaneously.
    Mike DeFabo, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
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  • The Chiefs will be pleased in 2025 if Araiza exceeds the 25 punts that were downed inside the 20-yard line in 2024.
    Nate Taylor, The Athletic, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Trees were downed and at least one home had collapsed, but no one was injured, WKMG-TV reported.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025
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  • But sometimes lost in that analysis is that the bigger factor may have been a lack of enthusiasm for Harris.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The Huskies also lost a trio of transfers after 2021-22 — Piath Gabriel (UMass), Mir McLean (Virginia, Maryland) and Saylor Poffenbarger (Arkansas, Maryland) — who all averaged less than five minutes of playing time in their UConn careers.
    Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2025
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  • That his songs are dripped in the melancholy, forever-heartbroken strums of the requinto guitar give Cornejo’s work a timeless quality.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2025
  • At Gropius Bau, black goo dripped from a handblown hourglass counting down specifically to the end of the exhibition.
    Emily McDermott, ARTnews.com, 11 Mar. 2025

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“Dropped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dropped. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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