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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of plummet.

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Examples

  • They recall, for example, how the value of the Halston label plummeted in the early 1980s after the designer tried to sell his fashions through JCPenney.

    Highbrow Goes Lowbrow 2008

  • If we had just waited, listened calmly while strange shaped ships plummeted from the sky spewing garbled language of conquest.

    365 tomorrows » 2005 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2005

  • Lamps dismounted from their tables at the slightest touch; pictures plummeted from the wall, the glass in their frames shattering, whenever anyone walked past them.

    Poor Devil 2005

  • Lamps dismounted from their tables at the slightest touch; pictures plummeted from the wall, the glass in their frames shattering, whenever anyone walked past them.

    Poor Devil 2005

  • SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- For the last 25 years, Gene Fields has pondered the fate of his crew mates aboard a AC-130A that plummeted from the skies in flames over Laos in 1970.

    Rowley, Charles S. 2002

  • SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- For the last 25 years, Gene Fields has pondered the fate of his crew mates aboard a AC-130A that plummeted from the skies in flames over Laos in 1970.

    Davis, Charlie Brown Jr. 1970

  • SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- For the last 25 years, Gene Fields has pondered the fate of his crew mates aboard a AC-130A that plummeted from the skies in flames over Laos in 1970.

    Lint, Donald M. 1970

  • SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- For the last 25 years, Gene Fields has pondered the fate of his crew mates aboard a AC-130A that plummeted from the skies in flames over Laos in 1970.

    Ireland, Robert N. 1970

  • SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- For the last 25 years, Gene Fields has pondered the fate of his crew mates aboard a AC-130A that plummeted from the skies in flames over Laos in 1970.

    Towle, John C. 1970

  • SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- For the last 25 years, Gene Fields has pondered the fate of his crew mates aboard a AC-130A that plummeted from the skies in flames over Laos in 1970.

    Harris, Stephen W. 1970

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