Drop
Sunk
Sunk adjective - Facing certain defeat, disaster, or death.
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The idea was that the dog would drop the payload under the tank, then come back, thus saving considerable expense that, in later versions, would have to be sunk into training a new dog from the ground up.
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While Icon ended up being mediocre at best, when compared to the previous entries in the series, it was a severe drop in quality, and thus sunk EA Chicago completely.Without hold of the license, the future of the Def Jam series as a fighter is questionable at best.
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Her business dealings aren't that shady and she's even willing to have her bottom line take a hit on moral concerns (though she seems more insane than corrupt since she approved of the designed then changed it at the drop of a hat after their company already sunk a lot of money into development).
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