dropped (off)

past tense of drop (off)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dropped (off)
Verb
  • The study led by Phillips that published last year found that the vaccine reduced signs of chlamydia during a koala's breeding age and decreased death from the disease by 64%.
    Chandelis Duster, NPR, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Darrow says the orchard’s acreage has decreased by half, mirroring the state’s overall decline since 2000.
    Mark Dent, HubSpot, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Even if military victory in the conventional sense remains uncertain, Russia has been diminished in ways that extend far beyond the battlefield.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The result can mean fatigue, irritability and diminished mental focus for the individual tasked with working in the heat.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Cal Fire’s newest proposal for Jackson, dubbed AMEX, targets nearly 500 acres with a patchwork of small clearcuts and is silent on tree sizes to be felled.
    John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Footage from the 1966 Italian documentary Africa Addio, of a herd of elephants being felled by both ground hunters and sharpshooters in helicopters, is distressing to watch.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Guiducci arrives at a moment when some of that anger has subsided, and the punch-drunk culture seems counterintuitively eager to escape into nostalgia and tastemaking, splashy profiles, and — just sometimes — confrontational journalism.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Employees said the mold problem still hadn’t subsided as of early this year.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Speleology fell away as a formal academic discipline after the war, Mattes explains.
    Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Questions were fielded, concerns aired, and one by one, the reservations fell away.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Dropped (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dropped%20%28off%29. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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