drops in

present tense third-person singular of drop in

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of drops in The numbers across the city were a setback for Bass, who has made homelessness one of her signature issues and previously touted two straight years of drops in street homelessness. Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026 Previous winners of this award have earned big moves off the back of the achievement, but others have suffered drops in form afterwards. Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 18 July 2026 Both showed drops in pTau217, a blood biomarker linked to Alzheimer’s progression, of 47% and 19%. Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 13 July 2026 Most don’t run that long in the first place, and ones that do often have films that suffer significant drops in quality. Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 In addition to ground units, air rescue teams were called in to perform water drops in an effort to control the fast-moving flames. Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 15 June 2026 When testing multilayer pouch cells at a temperature of 25°C, the cells sustained continuous discharge rates reaching 5C without experiencing major drops in capacity. Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026 All-female founding teams posted steeper drops in both deal value and count than mixed-gender cohorts. Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 8 June 2026 But with little substance beyond the scares, the genre became notorious for drastic second-weekend drops in ticket sales. Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 1 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drops in
Verb
  • Chang's 77-year-old mother, Lien, receives SNAP aid, too, and visits two food banks each week.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 July 2026
  • Chang's 77-year-old mother, Lien, receives SNAP aid, too, and visits two different food banks each week.
    ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026
Verb
  • However, once heated, its electrical resistance drops by four orders of magnitude, turning it into a shield.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 May 2026
  • Magically, too, Michael drops by for a few bites.
    Jocelyn Noveck, Boston Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The Padres had only ever scored that many runs in a game six times before in their nearly 57 seasons as a big-league franchise.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2026
  • The Cubs scored all 10 runs in the first four innings, while Imanaga allowed six hits and one walk in his longest outing since May 13 at Atlanta, also a seven-inning performance.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026
Verb
  • Kansas City is asking a judge to put control of a vacant former shopping mall that the city calls a nuisance into new hands.
    Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
  • Wu, who studied the Walled City’s architecture in school, calls the setting a rare chance to build a mainstream action franchise around a genuinely singular piece of Hong Kong urban history.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 July 2026
Verb
  • The neighborhood/area Daunt’s sits in the middle of Montauk’s classic motel zone, with the Plaza and restaurants and shops along Highway 27 a few steps in one direction and Kirby Park Beach in the other.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026
  • The developers will next prepare construction drawings and take other steps in anticipation of breaking ground in about two years.
    Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • Wicked Wonderland comes over a decade after the original trilogy with Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson, Cameron Boyce and Booboo Stewart arrived on the Disney Channel in 2015.
    Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026
  • The latest escalation comes over a battle for the Strait of Hormuz.
    Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 15 July 2026

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“Drops in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drops%20in. Accessed 28 Jul. 2026.

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