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    Use "precipitously" in a sentence

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    precipitously


    1. father, whose seventieth birthday was that week, had precipitously died


    2. A man at the helm of the largest corporation in the Federation did not act precipitously and still keep the tens of thousands of people whose lives and livelihoods were in his hands gainfully employed


    3. The sides of the mesa drop precipitously once one passes over the edge, until the mistbed is one-thousand, ten-thousand, one-hundred thousand metres below the mist


    4. � The rare civilian cars and trucks they met either assumed that they were German military vehicles or turned precipitously into side streets


    5. Marguerite, who had visited many battlefields in the Pacific and in Europe during the last war, had to say with some bitterness that the standard of the average American infantryman had fallen precipitously in the last three years


    6. The American units in Korea, pushed to the sea by North Korean and Chinese troops, had to precipitously leave the country by air and sea, with the last American soldiers leaving via Pusan last Monday, on August sixteen


    7. In this, the 2ème Bureau, and by extension the French government, would lose a lot if forced to leave precipitously the country


    8. expected to fall precipitously


    9. However, analysts know that drug companies can fall precipitously because of


    10. and allowing them to fall precipitously when investors move on

    11. products, the stock can fall precipitously


    12. that she had seen old John Manganelli sailing through a stop sign as if it weren’t there at all, yet another indication that he shouldn’t be driving in the first place, how old was he anyway? Shouldn’t there be an age limit, at least for men, who aged so much more precipitously than women? And besides, after he missed the stop sign he swerved down the road outside her house, swerved just as if he had been drunk, and maybe he was, and nearly ran over Millie Tucker on the sidewalk


    13. She flipped the keys to Ed in an easy underhand toss, and he executed a showy behind-the-back catch, adjusting the chef hat that perched precipitously over his receding sandy blond hairline at the same time


    14. For example, the value of information in an archive may drop precipitously because of changes in the market or within the corporation


    15. “Perhaps, but we must not move precipitously


    16. This isn’t just a case of Wyrshym falling back too precipitously, Rhobair


    17. Under the circumstances, however, and given the damage done to the transportation system, it would clearly be rash to advance too precipitously with winter no more than a month and a half away


    18. “To move precipitously against the admiral they believe produced that victory might cause questions and … uncertainty on their part


    19. She had not seen him since the day when she had alighted from his carriage so precipitously at Five Points


    20. The Weather grew thicker and dirtier as we gave Chase, and our Hold now being empty (where before ’twas deep-loaden with Gold and Silver), we heel’d precipitously

    21. In fact, in October 1987, when the market dropped precipitously, the option volatility in the totally unrelated cattle market also soared, for no other reason


    22. If caches are purged too quickly, the number of requests sent to the root name and top-level domain servers increases precipitously


    23. If a company has a tangible book value of $15 per share, then even if it is not earning money at the moment, the chances are good that the value of the assets will not drop precipitously


    24. INSP then drifts down slightly over the next several days as volume dries up precipitously, setting up a very favorable context for the ensuing October 7th pocket pivot buy point


    25. As GRMN reached what would become the peak of the right shoulder, daily trading volume declined precipitously as can be seen on the chart


    26. Several rallies back up into the 10-week line occur before one last rally precedes a final break through the 40-week (200-day) moving average, after which the stock plummets precipitously


    27. 41 shows, with the stock closing at the peak of the weekly range as trading volume dried up precipitously


    28. It is now the day after stock prices have tumbled precipitously everywhere…


    29. As of April 2010, Navin was sticking to his guns and believed that the bear market rally would end precipitously and imminently


    30. (the curve for Reinforcer A falls more precipitously than the curve for Reinforcer B)

    31. The stock can miss earnings expectations and fall precipitously, allowing you to sell the shorter-dated option, and then short covering moves the price back higher, leaving the longer-dated option at little risk or far enough out-of-the-money that it can be protected or hedged cheaply


    32. At point 3, we see the delta levels for the out-of-the-money options, which fall precipitously the further away from the current price we move


    33. It was rumored when the stock dropped precipitously a few months later that Kennedy had turned and led his own bear raid


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    Synonyms for "precipitously"

    precipitously sharply

    "precipitously" definitions

    very suddenly and to a great degree


    abruptly; in a precipitous manner