as in to visit
to make a brief visit
I'll either drop by on the way there or on the way back
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Grapevine’s offense started strong with four runs in the first two innings.—
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The second verse is one of the most breathless and breathtaking runs in his whole catalog.—
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If intuition, patterns or past behavior may point to wrongdoing, but hard proof is hard to come by, narcissists lean on this fallacy to rewrite the narrative in their favor.—
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1 June 2025
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Listen to this article NEW YORK — The punchlines would be easy to come by, and the factoids that illuminate futility on an historic scale are easy to list.—
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“Drop by.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drop%20by. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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