plunge
Example Sentences
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Values started increasing again when the number of homes for sale plunged as sellers backed away, unwilling to give up mortgages they took out earlier in the pandemic with rates of 3% or lower.
From Los Angeles Times
Since then, the value of the dollar has plunged.
Frigid air blows in from the north, blast-freezing the city's lakes and rivers and only the hardiest souls would dare to plunge into the icy water.
From BBC
Tanner plunges into these ostentatiously autobiographical roles, heedlessly, hectically and without a psychiatric net.
From Los Angeles Times
Likewise, tiny stocks can plunge with little or no effect on the larger ones that mainstream investors care about.
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