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- verb Present participle of
plummet .
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Examples
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In what can best be described a minor miracle, a 15-month-old girl was left unscathed after plummeting from a 8-story apartment, bouncing off a cafe's awning and into the arms of a bewildered passerby in Paris, the Guardian is reporting.
Baby Falls From 8th Floor Paris Apartment, Lives The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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With sales from that title plummeting, Activision said it will also shelve plans for a new "Guitar Hero" game it had intended to release later this year.
For Activision, Hit 'Call of Duty' Not Enough to Save 'Guitar Hero' Nick Wingfield 2011
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In what can best be described a minor miracle, a 15-month-old girl was left unscathed after plummeting from a 8-story apartment, bouncing off a cafe's awning and into the arms of a bewildered passerby in Paris, the Guardian is reporting.
Baby Falls From 8th Floor Paris Apartment, Lives The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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In “The Waking Life of Angels, †a woman is haunted by a recurring premonition; one of a person plummeting from a great height.
DC Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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The people of Adrian's stories seem determined to live ordinary secular lives, despite the miracles that erupt into the everyday, as when a nineteenth-century farmboy begins seeing visions of people plummeting from a skyscraper.
A Better Angel: Summary and book reviews of A Better Angel by Chris Adrian. 2008
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In New York City, that sent the number of students scoring proficient in English plummeting to 42% this year from 69% in 2009.
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Photographic records of WW II show B-24’s plummeting from the sky with two wings folded upward like those of a butterfly.
ROBERT JOHN HARRON 1997
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Now the Internet company has to live with the consequences -- namely a plummeting stock price and irritated investors.
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For a proud franchise with a history of being competitive, the plummeting is a difficult reality to grasp.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Jon KrawczYnski 2011
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For a proud franchise with a history of being competitive, the plummeting is a difficult reality to grasp.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Jon KrawczYnski 2011
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