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drop by
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
Besides Akram, about a half-dozen owners or employees of businesses in the area told The Times that their sales had dropped by about 50% in the last week.
In January Johnny Herbert was dropped by the FIA, which said his "duties as an FIA steward and that of a media pundit were incompatible".
Average attendances in the Women's Super League dropped by 10% last season compared with the previous campaign.
Imports of passenger cars dropped by a third from March to April.
The price of a used Tesla Model S and Model Y each dropped by about 16% in February from a year earlier.
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