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plunge

[pluhnj] / plʌndʒ /


NOUN
enthusiastic attempt
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“Still, after a plunge in April, this remains a worrisome reading. For context, the lowest reading during the previous energy shock was 93.7,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Sales dropped 4.8% in the three months ended March 31 from the year-ago period, compared with a more than 21% plunge two years earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

That makes TOI-199b far milder than hot Jupiters, while also being dramatically warmer than the frozen gas giants in our own solar system, where temperatures can plunge hundreds of degrees below zero.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

In other corporate news, French video game giant Ubisoft saw its shares plunge around 11 percent after it reported disappointing annual results and forecast further pain in the coming year.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

The shivering makes me cough, everything makes me cough, and I spit out handfuls of green goo from my lungs, but then I hold my breath and plunge in my head again.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness




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