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• s  done with very great haste and without due deliberation
• s  extremely steep
  the precipitous rapids of the upper river
  the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings

• Greed drove him to this precipitous fall from grace. He was one of the most popular politician in the country before he got embroiled in this controversy.
• That seems a precipitous judgment for a movie that came out a few months before the voting.
• By the second week of the year, diet searches begin a precipitous fall, dropping 32% within the first few days of the New Year, only to briefly recover in the summer months for .

• hasty
• overhasty
• precipitate
• precipitant
• abrupt
• sharp

News & Articles

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• Is PRISM Precipitating A Bitcoin Sell-Off?
  Bitcoin has experienced a fairly massive drop in value over the weekend and into this week, moving from a peak of $118 on June 7 to a low of $89 on June 9. While precipitous drops and dizzying highs aren't unusual for the cryptocurrency, BTC watchers are pointing to the PRISM and NSA leaks as a cause for this weekend's massive dip.
  June 11, 2013 - TechCrunch
• Is PRISM Precipitating A Bitcoin Sell-Off?
  Bitcoin has experienced a fairly massive drop in value over the weekend and into this week, moving from a peak of $118 on June 7 to a low of $89 on June 9. While precipitous drops and dizzying highs aren't unusual for the cryptocurrency, BTC watchers are pointing to the PRISM and NSA leaks as a cause for this weekend's massive dip.
  June 11, 2013 - TechCrunch
• How Apple Inadvertently Boosted YouTube for Google in a Big Way
  Even as Apple has been distancing itself from Google in several ways, cutting YouTube out has been great for Google. The search giant has seen a precipitous rise in mobile video ads.        
  June 8, 2013 - The Motley Fool

Quotes

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• Ryan Crocker in Los Angeles Times
  A precipitous withdrawal runs some very severe risks,Crocker said in Baghdad.
• President Bush in San Antonio Express
  I'm looking forward to the meeting,Bush said. "I hope the Democratic leadership will drop their unreasonable demands for a precipitous withdrawal."
• Dan Bartlett in Forbes
  What we're seeing here is an artificial, precipitous withdrawal from Iraq based on, unfortunately, politics in Washington, not on conditions on the ground in Baghdad,Bartlett said.