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dropper

[drop-er] / ˈdrɒp ər /


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This much silence from pop music’s most dramatic main character, biggest cornball and most profligate breadcrumb dropper has rattled the usual channels for all things Swift.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2026

“They take it out on a little eye dropper, and they put it all over,” he continued, adding that the team used insect repellent on his face to keep the bees clear from that area.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 2026

The Tri-Nations triopoly has been broken only once - 2003, Jonny Wilkinson's glorious dropper and all that.

From BBC Dec. 3, 2025

Bitters are added to drinks using a medicine dropper instead of a dasher bottle.

From Seattle Times Nov. 21, 2022

I watched him peer into the graduate, lifting the dropper and sniffing it, his face glowing with exasperation.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

He uses up to 100 different shades of color applied with eye droppers to the surface of these canvases.

From New York Times Oct. 20, 2022

The rampant increase of new cognitive hacking exploits, from false-memory droppers to this sort of snareware, made it essential.

From Salon Mar. 14, 2020

Those costs would price out many patients, who would be paying out of pocket for MedPharm Iowa’s pills, droppers or creams.

From Washington Times Apr. 29, 2018

As difficult as it was to get started—I needed nipple guards, visits to a lactation consultant, droppers, special scales—I never thought to stop.

From Slate May 21, 2015

The monkey was hollow, like all the water droppers Min made.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park




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