Plopping

Plopping one of these heavy-set box sets down on the coffee table, it's sometimes hard to decide where to begin, or which episode to sample out of the dozens just sitting there waiting to be rediscovered.

TV review of "The Larry Sanders Show" coming out on box set Tom Shales 2010

Plopping light rail in the middle of downtown Bellevue, although it seems like the obvious choice today, negates the bigger picture of what a greatly expanded, future version of "downtown" Bellevue will ultimately mean.

Bellevue Council Votes for South Section of “Vision Line” « PubliCola 2010

Plopping Breitbart at the top of a major GOP event blows the party's façade of respectability to smithereens.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: GOP's Invitation to Breibart Proves they are Lying About Race 2010

Plopping Breitbart at the top of a major GOP event blows the party's façade of respectability to smithereens.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: GOP's Invitation to Breitbart Proves They Are Lying About Race 2010

Plopping down that kind of money in these funds would be a terrible mistake that could haunt you for the rest of you life.

Vanguard's Three Worst Mutual Funds Dan Wiener 2010

Plopping down that kind of money in these funds would be a terrible mistake that could haunt you for the rest of you life.

Vanguard's Three Worst Mutual Funds Dan Wiener 2010

Plopping down that kind of money in these funds would be a terrible mistake that could haunt you for the rest of you life.

Vanguard's Three Worst Mutual Funds Dan Wiener 2010

“Plopping” this or that object in a highly trafficked area is presumably done for the benefit of the public weal, as if navigating around art is the same thing as appreciating it.

To Have and to Weld 2009

"Plopping the president down over there really does raise the stakes," says Mark Parris, a former US ambassador to Turkey, reported in the LA Times.

Carla Garapedian: Do the Right Thing, President Obama 2009

Plopping newbies down in a bizarro landscape increases cognitive load, decreases learning time-on-task and may even reduce transfer of the lessons learned to other situations.

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