drop by

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.

Example Sentences

Current estimates suggest Africa holds only 20,000 to 25,000 wild lions, and this population has dropped by about half over the last quarter century.

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Once the news had dropped by Thursday morning, buyers rushed in, giving the all-clear sign, it seemed, after Nvidia’s boffo earnings and a robust job report.

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Once the news had dropped by Thursday morning, buyers rushed in, giving the all-clear sign, it seemed, after Nvidia’s boffo earnings and a robust job report.

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There have been days in the past where specific crypto tokens have more than doubled, or bear markets where they’ve dropped by half.

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African penguin numbers have dropped by nearly 80% over the past thirty years.

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