Nathan Myhrvold

Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.

American Businessman

Drew Barrymore

I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating.

American Actress

Dawn Foster

Winter is always the hardest period for rough sleepers because of the climate and the post-Christmas dip in generosity towards anyone begging. And there's a genuine risk to life for anyone having to sleep out as temperatures plummet.

British Journalist

Charlotte Ritchie

I'm not an active person on social media, really. I always get nervous tweeting anything. The moment I tweet, I get this plummeting sense of regret. I delete roughly 95 percent of my tweets immediately.

English Actress

Faith Salie

Approval ratings matter for politicians, largely for good reason. A leader with plummeting approval ratings ought to take note of the needs and hopes of his people.

American Journalist

Rush Limbaugh

Racial relations in this country are plummeting. Racial strife is rising. All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us together.

American Entertainer

Trish Regan

I want a for-profit company counting my vote because they know if they get it wrong, or if they get hacked, their value will plummet.

Bob Saget

I was so depressed for so many years over trying to become a working comedian that my sense of self-worth would plummet.

American Actor

Tech N9ne

I've been around so long that I've seen rappers make it and plummet.

American Musician

Robert Harris

We say, 'The market plummets,' like it's some roaring creature.

British Novelist

Use 'plummet' to describe rapid declines in business or economic situations, showing urgency or distress.

Economic Context

'Plummet' adds drama, suggesting something is falling quickly and might cause shock or surprise.

Dramatic Effect

The word 'plummet' often has a negative connotation, as most contexts involve undesirable decreases.

Negative Connotation

Use 'plummet' to highlight a fast, uncontrolled fall from a high position in a physical space.

Physical Descent

'Plummet' implies a descent that is sudden and unexpected, often with a sense of alarm.

Unexpected Falls

While often literal, 'plummet' can also be used metaphorically to describe a rapid fall in status or emotions.

Literal and Figurative

 That was when I was reading the meter every week. And my life changed, because I started doing experiments and seeing what made a difference. My gas consumption plummeted, because I started tinkering with the thermostat and the timing on the heating system, and I knocked more than half off my gas bills. There's a similar story for my electricity consumption,

David Mackay: A reality...

 bottom and that was when I was reading the meter every week and my life changed because I'd started doing experiments and seeing what made a difference and my gas consumption plummeted because I started tinkering with the thermostat and the timing on the heating system and I knocked more than a half off my gas

A reality check on...

 And then they fold their wings back and get this incredibly aerodynamic form before plummeting down, making them the fastest animal in the world. Travelling at speeds of more than 300 kilometres per hour. Anything moving that quickly would have huge amounts of air firing straight in

Spotting the World's...

 Galaxies would start rushing towards each other, and as they clumped together their gravitational pull would get even stronger. Stars too would hurtle together and collide. Temperatures would rise as space would get tighter and tighter. The size of the universe would plummet

Three ways the universe...

 reducing the plant's core temperature during the heat of the day. Then, at night, when air temperatures plummet, the spines act as an insulating layer, keeping the cactus from cooling down too much. These functions are just as important, if not more,

Nature's fortress: How...

 the glaciers would once again grow and plummet down the valleys destroying everything in their path and the exact opposite happened an unthinkable trend of warming and in glacial recession and glacial lake formation likewise the

The Call of Everest PIPE...

 as a sort of universal personality test. Employers made prejudiced hiring decisions based on reductive decoding charts. As the test left clinics and entered popular culture its reputation among medical professionals plummeted,

How does the Rorschach...

 When the amplification fails, our hearing's sensitivity plummets, and an individual may then need an electronic hearing aid to supplant the damaged biological one. This active process also enhances our frequency selectivity.

The beautiful,...

 And as sunken skyscrapers add crumbled concrete to the new forest floor, the soil acidity plummets, potentially allowing new plant life to thrive. This post-human biodiversity extends into the animal kingdom, as well.

What would happen if...

 eventually the new order begins to establish itself by technological substitution and outright suppression the population of fires plummets good fires as well as bad fires it falls