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It can be used when you want to suggest that someone should stop thinking about a particular idea or notion. Example: "After considering the consequences, I decided to drop the thought of moving to another city."
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When Barrales saw Lee play, he dropped the thought of trying to play rhythm guitar himself because he had a fear of not being able to keep up.
Just let them clothes drop, the policeman thought.
His heart dropped at the thought of what he was letting happen.
The sounds you just heard was jaws dropping at the thought that this might happen and what it could mean to revenue and earnings expectations for Facebook, Alphabet, Twitter, Snap, Disney, CBS, The New York Times and all the other companies for which advertising is a key part of their business model.
"We have dropped from the thoughts and care of everybody," he said.
"It's hard for me to understand why we....". he began, then dropped the painful thought.
Well, you need to drop that thought like a bad habit.
From this recurrent image of a road he drops into evoking the thought of his intellectual idol, the "physicist, ballistician, philosopher and psychologist" called de Selby.
Let's drop down out of the thought realm and ground this in one of our greatest teachers: animals.
King has a habit (habit? habits are formed, this is something innate) of indenting brackets or dropping the italicised thoughts of his characters into his third-person narratives.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com