Thesaurus results for DROPPED BY

dropped by

verb

Definition of dropped by next

past tense of drop by

as in visited

to make a brief visit I'll either drop by on the way there or on the way back

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Recent Examples of dropped by The president dropped by a retreat at his Doral golf club to sell the Iran war and pump up Republican lawmakers ahead of the midterm elections. —

Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026 Downforce has dropped by roughly 30 percent and drag by around 55 percent, encouraging closer racing and more overtaking. —

Brad Spurgeon, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2026 Heating oil, which can be a proxy for jet fuel, also dropped by more than 8% after having traded higher by 23%. —

Steve Kopack, NBC news, 9 Mar. 2026 While student enrollment dropped by about 38,000 over the last ten years, staffing numbers barely changed. —

Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2026 But the number of students statewide taking English for Speakers of Other Languages classes has dropped by more than 17,000 this year, according to the report by Florida’s Office of Economic and Demographic Research, in perhaps a more precise measure of immigrant exits. —

Camila Gomez, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2026 Within just two weeks of the cutoff, at the end of December, enrollment had dropped by 1 million people. —

Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026 After Sarandon made controversial remarks at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York City’s Union Square in November 2023 amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, she was dropped by her talent agency, UTA. —

Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 1 Mar. 2026 Eight women accused Landis in a report in The Daily Beast that led to him being dropped by his management company, to being disavowed by one of his film’s directors, and to another project falling apart. —

Brian Welk, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2026

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María was among the locals sweeping up the ashes and trying to scrub burn marks from the streets and buildings when The Times visited Etzatlán in the days after El Mencho’s death.

— Senior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Some 24% fewer Canadians visited Las Vegas overall last year.

— Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026