plummet
noun
a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
had plummeted
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past perfectof plummet.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Public support for a total ban on handguns in the home had plummeted.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
Shares in all of those companies had plummeted over the past month as investors soured on AI and technology stocks amid worries about massive capital expenditures and higher borrowing costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
By November of that year, the ask had plummeted to $5.9 million, before the listing was removed altogether.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
But AI had scraped her website’s content and used it to rank itself higher in search results; her company’s revenue had plummeted by about half and she’d had to let employees go.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026
Yet by 1987, when the drug war hit high gear, the industrial employment of black men had plummeted to 28 percent.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
