drop
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Throughout the World Cup, for example, we saw him drop into the backline when former City team-mate Aymeric Laporte pushed up with the ball.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
As temperatures drop further over the weekend, and parts of the UK see a little rain, even these local heatwaves are likely to come to an end.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
For Iran, the more pressing issue is not the level of oil prices, but how long the country can withstand a sharp drop in oil revenues under the U.S. blockade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
After the sweltering weekend, temperatures in the Southland are expected to drop Monday through Wednesday, but only by a few degrees, the weather service said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Which meant that in the future I was going to write this letter and drop it here, in this exact moment, so that I could change the future in some way.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
On the ex-dividend date, a fund’s share price typically drops by the exact value of the declared dividend.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Spot gold drops 0.15% to $4,043.12 a troy ounce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
These carry up to 1,000 litres of water and allow repeated pick-ups and water drops.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Phineas comes up with all sorts of new plans, the doctor writes, but they are no sooner announced than he drops them.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Most of the delegates elected to the convention last weekend support former state Senate President Troy Jackson, and all of his meaningful rivals quickly dropped out.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026
In 2020, all their momentum nearly came to a crashing halt when RCA Records dropped the band, citing pandemic-era cost-cutting.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The 10-year yield dropped 0.025 percentage point to 4.678%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
As you can also see from the chart, the spread is strongly mean-reverting: Whenever the spread has dropped significantly below its average, it soon rose back to that average — or higher.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
He dropped to all fours and ran as one of the boars charged, his swinging tusks wiping Clare’s hind legs out from beneath him.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Humphrey Dolittle of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, who “ſuddenly dropt down in the Street, and inſtantly expired” on Jan. 7, 1763.
From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2020
“I was inclined by my genius from childhood to the love of antiquities,” he writes, “and my Fate dropt me in a countrey most suitable for such enquiries.”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2017
So with that intent, one dropt on our starboard side called the la Fue and the other dropt on our larboard side called the Doubtable, they kept a very hot fire for some time.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2010
Emma was more than half in hopes of Mr. Elton’s having dropt a hint.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
And then a spasm constricted her mouth for an instant: as it passed away she turned and left the room, and so did I. Neither of us had dropt a tear.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
For most of England and Wales the third heatwave of the year ended last weekend when cooler air arrived, dropping maximum temperatures widely to 20-24C.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Charter’s stock was dropping 11% in premarket action.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
The price relief of just dropping most levies would’ve been welcome as bond yields flirt with multiyear highs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The RAC acknowledged UK airports generally offered other options for dropping people off at locations further from the terminal, sometimes with free shuttle buses.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Mr. Adjoyi Jr. was also dropping by more frequently.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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