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Recent Examples of dropped
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Despite meeting or beating estimates, shares dropped as investors remained unimpressed.—
Arjun Kharpal,kai Nicol-Schwarz,
CNBC,
28 Aug. 2026 Liberty Christian dropped a heartbreaker in the season opener, losing a big lead before falling to Midland Christian 66-63.—
Darren Lauber,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Aug. 2026 That mass of ice and rock dropped from 5,100 to 3,000 meters, damming a river.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
27 Aug. 2026 The charge was later dropped after a court ruled that authorities violated Kraft’s rights.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
27 Aug. 2026 The phone was deliberately dropped over uninhabited terrain to reduce any risk to people on the ground.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Aug. 2026 Calderone blamed Rompola for his rack being dropped from state records.—
Richard P. Smith,
Outdoor Life,
27 Aug. 2026 In fact, areas from Sterling down to Deer Trail and Limon out to the Kansas state line have dropped down to dry or no drought at all.—
Dave Aguilera,
CBS News,
21 Aug. 2026 Gabela came into office in 2023 after running on a reform platform, defeating incumbent Alex Díaz de la Portilla, who at the time was facing charges of money laundering and bribery that were later dropped.—Miami Herald,
20 Aug. 2026
Some of these studies even suggest a decreased risk of breast cancer with certain formulations of menopausal hormone therapy.
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Versha Pleasant,
The Conversation,
30 July 2026
He was slowed early in his recovery from a knee injury and then saw a decreased role in the rotation in the last month, playing only seven minutes in three tournament games.
Rincker, a German immigrant, was known for casting the bell that hung from the first Cook County Courthouse, which was felled by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
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Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Aug. 2026
Frightened that she may be plagued by the same mental illness that felled her mom, Gemma stubbornly refuses to believe anything is wrong.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Aug. 2026
After loading the AliExpress homepage, audio from his phone stopped playing over his multipoint headphones, which accept connections from more than one device at a time.
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Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
24 Aug. 2026
His wife, Sheila, has also stopped working to serve as his full-time caregiver.
The number of Americans who report having six or more close friends has plunged by 50% this century, and the number of people reporting no close friends has skyrocketed by 400% over that same time period.
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Ken Stern,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2026
Rock, ice and mud plunged down for miles, washing away communities along the river.
The film is produced by Mattia Guerra for Be Water Film, Filippo Sugar and Elisabetta Biganzoli for Sugar Play, and Marco Colombo for Adler Entertainment, together with Marco Morabito and Fasano.
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Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
27 Aug. 2026
The late star had also been a co-owner of Sandollar Productions alongside her former manager, Sandy Gallin, which produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Father of the Bride and Sabrina, among others.
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