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By August 19, he was dead. There has been a great deal of conjecture about what caused such a precipitous decline. (source)precipitous = fast
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His weight fell precipitously.† (source)
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I didn't want to act too precipitously.† (source)
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The temperature on Trisolaris dropped precipitously, reaching levels comparable to the appearance of three flying stars, which had ruined many cycles of civilization in the past.† (source)
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And though it was warmer than it had been when they so precipitously left the apple orchard, there was a faintly autumnal touch to the air; near them were several small trees with reddened leaves very like sumac, and a big patch of goldenrod-like flowers.† (source)
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From a ridge some three hundred yards inland, the island sloped to the sea and, forty or so yards into it, fell off precipitously, disappearing from sight into the depths of the Pacific, surely the smallest continental shelf on record.† (source)
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Mahipar—which means "Flying Fish"—was a high summit with a precipitous drop overlooking the hydro plant the Germans had built for Afghanistan back in 1967.† (source)
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She made a sudden and unsignaled left turn, pulling onto a road that dropped precipitously down a hill with fields on either side, and she gripped the steering wheel tight as we accelerated, and she waited until the last possible moment to brake, just before we reached the bottom of the hill.† (source)
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But given the imperative of feeding the cities, the precipitous decline in the harvest was met with increased quotas and requisitions enforced at gunpoint.† (source)
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Poor Marley's status dropped precipitously from second fiddle to not even in the orchestra.† (source)
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Lately, however, Joe Odom's fortunes had taken a precipitous plunge.† (source)
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Their excitement was not his; he felt as if he'd moved too precipitously.† (source)
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Just a precipitous drop to the sea.† (source)
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She swam out farther and paused where the floor dropped precipitously into deepest blue.† (source)
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Now she was racing headlong down a precipitous grade where any misplaced step could mean a deadly fall.† (source)
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At the top of the mountain, the road dropped precipitously and swung back and forth until it bottomed out into a long, narrow valley.† (source)
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