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Recent Examples of plunk down
Like the other nine survivalists in his season, Albano was plunked down along a river near the Arctic Circle in Northern Canada.
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Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 18 July 2025
Away from their village, the Smurfs land in places with photographic backdrops, like the Australian Outback and a section of the Autobahn outside Munich, with a twisty castle plunked down in the middle of it.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 July 2025
In late November, Sun plunked down the $30 million ostensibly needed to cover operating expenses.
—Chris Dobstaff, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
As first reported by Politico Thursday, Housing for All, a super PAC funded by one of the city’s largest landlord lobbies, is plunking down $2.5 million on airing ads boosting Cuomo’s run.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 6 June 2025
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Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 18 July 2025
Away from their village, the Smurfs land in places with photographic backdrops, like the Australian Outback and a section of the Autobahn outside Munich, with a twisty castle plunked down in the middle of it.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 July 2025
In late November, Sun plunked down the $30 million ostensibly needed to cover operating expenses.
—Chris Dobstaff, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
As first reported by Politico Thursday, Housing for All, a super PAC funded by one of the city’s largest landlord lobbies, is plunking down $2.5 million on airing ads boosting Cuomo’s run.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plunk down
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The legal challenges have largely been successful so far, with courts in Arkansas and Ohio striking down similar laws.—
Zachary Folk,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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This week John Mendez, a federal judge in Sacramento, struck down one of the measures, Assembly Bill 2655, carried by Assemblyman Marc Berman, a Palo Alto Democrat.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
9 Aug. 2025
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While technically a violation of the bureau's own internal policies and the service's terms of use, the court said the evidence could stand and knocked down Kohberger's arguments that the IGG technique had violated his Fourth Amendment rights.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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He can be hurt and occasionally knocked down, but he’s only been finished once, which was by Rakhmonov in Round 3.—
Brett Appley,
New York Times,
16 Aug. 2025
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The audio has been used in nearly 2 million videos, many of which portray chaotic incidents, such as a person getting knocked over by a splash from a water slide or a woman almost getting hit by a rebounding axe at an axe throwing range.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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Just one example: When Tom Sandoval punched Jax Taylor, Shay sobbed to Lisa Vanderpump that she had been knocked over in the scuffle.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
23 July 2025
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If a user asks a question, quickly and without hesitation, plop out an answer.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The senior dog then plopped himself right between Cartie and Fedoris and lovingly looked up at them.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
People.com,
7 July 2025
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In one of the few shocks of the 2024 election season, Lundberg was toppled by Bobby Harshbarger in a heated August GOP primary.—
Melissa Brown,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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With fears that the M23 was threatening to topple the Congolese government and of regional war erupting in central Africa, the Trump administration applied heavy pressure on both Congo and Rwanda to stop the fighting.—
Emmet Livingstone,
NPR,
20 Aug. 2025
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