drop
noun
a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
will have dropped
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future perfectof drop.future perfect
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
Example Sentences
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The Met has forecast that by March of this year the number of police officers will have dropped to 31,258, down from 33,766 in May 2024, as it faces a £20m budget gap.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
County home prices will have dropped percentage-wise by the “high-single digits” compared with December 2022 — a moment when the company’s home price index had already recorded a 5% drop from the peak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2023
Energy Information Administration, in 2050, under current policy, that percentage will have dropped to about 75 percent.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2021
Transmission will have dropped as well, Gilbert said – it’s hard to know how well a vaccine trial is going if the subjects aren’t being exposed to the virus at all.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2020
Next month he will be dumb, and before you know it his beautiful shining black coat, with the white and buff trimmings, will have dropped off.
From Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
