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as in hurried
acting or done with excessive or careless speed
soon regretted our precipitous actions in international affairs
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as in steep
having an incline approaching the perpendicular
a precipitous ski slope that fully merits its triple diamond designation
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Recent Examples of precipitous
Tesla’s profits plummeted 71% over the first three months of the year, with reputation rankings showing a similarly precipitous drop amongst consumers.
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Michael Wilner, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
But the company’s electric vehicle sales nosedived, with a 25% overall decrease, brought down by a precipitous 41.7% drop in sales for its F-150 Lightning EV.
—Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 3 June 2025
Corn, 55, is smack in the middle of that 52-57 age bracket when women experience precipitous bone density loss but received her diagnosis at 40.
—Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
Meanwhile, the overall manufacturing employment is slightly below 2019 levels despite a precipitous increase in the working-age population since then.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
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Michael Wilner, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
But the company’s electric vehicle sales nosedived, with a 25% overall decrease, brought down by a precipitous 41.7% drop in sales for its F-150 Lightning EV.
—Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 3 June 2025
Corn, 55, is smack in the middle of that 52-57 age bracket when women experience precipitous bone density loss but received her diagnosis at 40.
—Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
Meanwhile, the overall manufacturing employment is slightly below 2019 levels despite a precipitous increase in the working-age population since then.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for precipitous
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Scenes of hurried passengers chugging water or tossing full bottles into trash bins have become routine — and agents are required to confiscate anything that doesn’t comply, often to the frustration of everyday travelers.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
17 July 2025
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While authors have long relied on brief bookstore appearances and hurried festival signings to connect with their audience, reading retreats offer extended, intimate access to their most devoted fans in settings designed for thoughtful literary discussion.—
JD Barker,
Rolling Stone,
16 July 2025
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However, Trump has imposed steep new taxes on imports of Canadian steel, aluminum and autos, and Carney's team has focused on trying to get those eliminated or reduced.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 July 2025
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But Trump has resisted backing a bipartisan U.S. bill to impose steep sanctions on Russia, instead giving Russia 50 days to accept a peace deal or face sanctions on its energy exports.—
Michelle L. Price,
Chicago Tribune,
25 July 2025
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Then Kings of Leon and Black Keys come out of Nashville and then all of a sudden the diversity of the music that was coming out of there started to really grow over a short period of time.—
Melonee Hurt,
The Tennessean,
25 July 2025
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While some seemed excited about Buck's sudden appearance, some speculated about the possibility of Stephanopoulos leaving the show.—
Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American Statesman,
25 July 2025
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The vaunting acclaim the retrospective elicited seems largely unwarranted, though in several brilliant sequences scattered throughout his work, the unruly Rozier achieved an impulsive kind of mastery.—
James Quandt,
The New York Review of Books,
31 July 2025
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Jena Malone played the Bennets’ youngest daughter, Lydia Bennet, whose impulsive behavior threatens the family’s reputation.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
30 July 2025
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This momentary pause, this saving interruption of the headlong, breathless trajectory of rape or murder, admitted a kind of compassion, pity, even tenderness, halting injustice in its tracks.—
Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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But swirling around it are immigration restrictions, headlong and haphazard reductions in Federal spending and a separate but related confidence shock weighing on consumer behavior.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
22 Mar. 2025
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All hands beat a hasty re treat to the cabin and barricaded themselves behind the companionway door.—
Pat Smith,
Outdoor Life,
24 July 2025
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The recent uptick may be hasty unless the company can consistently deliver production, manage expenses, and progress towards generating sustainable cash flow.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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Rhus tox, also known as Rhus toxicodendron, is a homeopathic remedy derived from the poison oak plant, traditionally used for joint and muscle pain and relieving or preventing poison oak or poison ivy rash.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
29 July 2025
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With the bite, rash and swelling, all of it seemed to line up with the spider explanation.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
24 July 2025
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Aybar-Berroa also has a criminal history in New York City that includes arrests for second-degree reckless endangerment in May 2023 and fourth-degree felony grand larceny and petit larceny in March and April 2024, officials said.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
25 July 2025
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He is charged with two counts of first-degree reckless homicide as a party to a crime in the teens' shooting deaths.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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“Precipitous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precipitous. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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