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from The Century Dictionary.
- Precipitously.
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Examples
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A Gallup poll out today sheds some new light on all the talk about the "enthusiasm gap": It finds that confidence in the legislative branch has dropped most precipitiously among Democrats.
Even Dems are fast losing confidence in gov't Greg Sargent 2010
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And it appears to be all about Palin: As Taegan Goddard notes, the poll's key finding is that Ayotte's appeal to moderate voters has dropped precipitiously in the wake of Palin's endorsement.
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And support dropped precipitiously for a "surge" when respondents were asked to choose between four options -- withdraw immediately, withdraw within a year, withdraw taking as many years as needed and increase troop strength.
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By the way, some of you may have noticed that the level of violence in Iraq has declined precipitiously.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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I stupidly put it on the middle rack, where it rose precipitiously, then burned to a crisp before the middle was anything but goo.
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Add to that the fact that tv shows NEVER GET BETTER AFTER THE FIFTH SEASON -- they can only hold ground, or get worse, and most get precipitiously worse somewhere around s6 or s7 -- and I have to say it doesn't seem wrong or unfair to me that people want to call it off here.
hth_the_first: putting the "fan" back in "franchise" -- no, wait... hth_the_first 2008
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For a low profile special election held in early February like this one, voter turnout drops precipitiously, to as low as 10%.
Working Families Party Field Operation in SD7 Steve Perez 2007
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Actually, we are in the last stages of the Pleistocene Ice Age Epoch which peaked about 1.65 million years ago and has been melting ever since, not precipitiously nor uniformily, but in a series of advances and retreats.
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For a low profile special election held in early February like this one, voter turnout drops precipitiously, to as low as 10%.
Archive 2007-01-01 Steve Perez 2007
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Standards of living in the countries with the EURO will decline gradually and precipitiously.
The French Dislike The Euro Serf 2006
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