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to go to a lower level especially abruptly
a week in which stock prices plummeted
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Recent Examples of plummeted
As housing values plummeted, millions of Americans, many of them stuck with outsize mortgage debt, lost homes to foreclosure.
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Paul Wiseman,
Fortune,
22 June 2026
According to the report, animals are staying in the facility longer, animal deaths have increased and vital transfers to outside rescue organizations have plummeted sharply from over 4,700 down to just 1,159.
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Ryan MacAsero,
Mercury News,
19 June 2026
These shells broke before they could be hatched and the species' population plummeted.
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Madeline Gunderson,
USA Today,
19 June 2026
Vance’s support has plummeted from 52% in February, before the war, while Rubio’s has increased from 20%.
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Sara Dorn,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
The Jets also added veteran leadership, including Demario Davis, Minkah Fitzpatrick, and others, to improve a defense that plummeted to 31st in points allowed in 2025.
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Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
18 June 2026
Stock markets surged and oil prices plummeted after Washington and Tehran reached a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, though analysts voiced caution over the agreement’s prospects.
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Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
15 June 2026
Our goal was not to persuade or judge, but to figure out why public trust in national institutions has plummeted to historic lows and what might be done to build it back up.
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Scott Warren,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2026
In areas of Everglades National Park, where the snakes started showing up in the 1980s, sightings of mammals such as marsh rabbits, raccoons, opossums, bobcats and deer have plummeted by 80% to 99%, depending on species.
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Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
11 June 2026
Paul Wiseman,
Fortune,
22 June 2026
According to the report, animals are staying in the facility longer, animal deaths have increased and vital transfers to outside rescue organizations have plummeted sharply from over 4,700 down to just 1,159.
—
Ryan MacAsero,
Mercury News,
19 June 2026
These shells broke before they could be hatched and the species' population plummeted.
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Madeline Gunderson,
USA Today,
19 June 2026
Vance’s support has plummeted from 52% in February, before the war, while Rubio’s has increased from 20%.
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Sara Dorn,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
The Jets also added veteran leadership, including Demario Davis, Minkah Fitzpatrick, and others, to improve a defense that plummeted to 31st in points allowed in 2025.
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Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
18 June 2026
Stock markets surged and oil prices plummeted after Washington and Tehran reached a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, though analysts voiced caution over the agreement’s prospects.
—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
15 June 2026
Our goal was not to persuade or judge, but to figure out why public trust in national institutions has plummeted to historic lows and what might be done to build it back up.
—
Scott Warren,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2026
In areas of Everglades National Park, where the snakes started showing up in the 1980s, sightings of mammals such as marsh rabbits, raccoons, opossums, bobcats and deer have plummeted by 80% to 99%, depending on species.
—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
11 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plummeted
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The most dangerous situation appeared to be on Barrington Avenue, west of East Dundee Village Hall, where a light, a utility pole and part of a parkway tree were felled by strong winds, leaving power lines dangling across the road.
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John Adams famously wrote to his wife, Abigail, that smallpox was killing 10 soldiers for every one felled in battle.
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Yves Seguy, the regional prefect, told BFM the aircraft plunged vertically to the ground.
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On the eve of the 2024 Summer Olympics, hosted by Paris, a wetsuited Hidalgo had plunged herself into the Seine.
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New-home construction tumbled, then stayed depressed for over a decade.
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At Mariposa Market in Willits, grocery items, wine bottles and other merchandise tumbled from shelves, leaving aisles littered with broken glass and scattered products.
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The numbers behind the downturn Wine consumption has dipped to historic lows.
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For stargazers who have dipped their toes into the world of binoculars and telescopes, prices stack up quickly and even one purchase can wipe out thousands of dollars.
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District officials declined to provide the correspondence with Carvalho, instead assigning the request to the district’s Public Records Act unit, where some requests for records have taken years to resolve.
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The public prosecutor’s office declined to comment on the case when reached by CNN.
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Meanwhile, the president’s approval rating on the economy dropped to 33% last week in an NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll — his lowest ever for that poll and 3 points below former President Biden’s worst reading on the question during his term.
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The point Algeria picked up for the draw gave them four for the tournament, one more than Iran gained in their three matches in Group G, and dropped Iran to the ninth spot among the third place teams, one shy of making the round of 32.
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