drop by

Idioms  

1. Also,. Pay a brief, casual, and usually unannounced visit. For example, I asked her to drop by whenever she was in the neighborhood, or Joan loves to have friends drop in, or We'd love to drop over but we haven't time on this trip. The first term dates from the first half of the 1900s; drop in is from the mid-1600s and drop over from the late 1800s.

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Example Sentences

Ferguson has already been dropped by multiple charities over her Epstein links.

From BBC

Arrivals from Nigeria and Ghana, which historically send more students to the U.S. than any other African countries, dropped by roughly half.

From The Wall Street Journal

Baker noted Monday that the price of the precious metal had fallen more than 15% since the start of the war, “substantially more than U.S. equities,” which had dropped by around 5%.

From Barron's

The population of Aedes aegypti females dropped by an average of 82% compared with a control area.

From Los Angeles Times

But she has been plagued by her own Epstein controversies - which led to her being dropped by multiple charities last September.

From BBC

Related Words

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