verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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It plummets down towards the sunning man on the lawn.
more
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The Nasdaq Combined Composite index, home to many of these stocks, plummeted more than 3 percent today.
■ NOUN
percent
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Sixty-five percent of women start off breastfeeding - but that figure plummets to 40 percent in the six weeks after delivery.
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But two years later, that figure has plummeted to 39 percent .
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The Nasdaq Combined Composite index, home to many of these stocks, plummeted more than 3 percent today.
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Meanwhile, new-homes sales plummeted by 10.9 percent in January, the biggest drop in seven years.
price
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All over the world prices were plummeting and so were distraught financiers.
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World rice and rubber prices plummeted and production was cut.
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Within months farm prices had plummeted and wages were also being driven steadily down.
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In 1994, when bond prices plummeted , so did trading revenue.
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He also ordered the government to buy more school lunch beef to bolster cattle prices , now plummeting because of a drought.
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Land prices plummeted as Hindus as well as Sikhs left the state to escape violence.
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Microsoft appealed against this ruling-the case goes back to court next month-but its share price plummeted .
■ VERB
send
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Inflation fears and rising interest rates sent the stock market plummeting to its fourth consecutive loss yesterday.
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The gloomy developments have sent tobacco stock prices plummeting .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Enrollment at the school has plummeted to 25 students.
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The helicopters slammed together before plummeting to the ground.
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The rope snapped, causing the climber to plummet several hundred feet down the mountain.
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Two aircraft on a training flight collided and plummeted to the ground.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the price of big houses like that has really plummeted in the last year.
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Beef sales, prices and consumer demand have plummeted.
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But two years later, that figure has plummeted to 39 percent.
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Like a bulldozer plowing through snow, the plummeting granite sheet shoved air ahead of it.
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Retail sales of the quintessential red meats are plummeting, whilst vegetarianism has become a fashionable norm.
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Sixty-five percent of women start off breastfeeding - but that figure plummets to 40 percent in the six weeks after delivery.
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The ledges gleamed in the air briefly in the gray light then plummeted as the water gargled and spat all around them.
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With a sudden drop-pounce, he plummets.