dip
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The Fed’s preferred personal consumption expenditure price index fell 0.1% in June, the first dip since the pandemic.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
In a social-media post after Kimi K3’s release caused a dip in U.S. stocks, Moonshot AI President Zhang Yutong wrote that the company’s annual recurring revenue spiked to a record high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
But visa restrictions and federal attempts to overhaul higher education have led to a dip in foreign enrollment, experts say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
There's been a dip in employment rates for Gen Z compared with the generations that came before.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
With the world upside down, the trees dip into a velvety expanse of stars.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Where the researchers expected to see a smooth spectrum produced by light reflecting from dust, they instead found a pattern of peaks and dips.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
A folding-phone concern for years has been the “crease”—where the inside display dips between the two halves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Crackers have spent enough time under cheese, beside soup, tucked politely next to salads and dips.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
At club level his conversion rate dips a bit, with 50 goals from 62 attempts.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
By the time the sun dips near the horizon, he’s found seven of our eight maximum the park rules allow.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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Tomato already knows butter from ghee-rich curries, grilled cheese dipped in tomato soup and Marcella Hazan’s famously spare sauce.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
Half-year sales dipped three percent to 7.2 billion euros on a reported basis but once currency exchange rates and changes to the business are stripped out they edged one percent higher.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, dipped below $88 a barrel, marking a sharp turnaround from last week when it had risen above $100.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Revenue dipped 0.7% relative to a year earlier, and it came in at $34.3 billion, below the $35.2 billion consensus view.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Carefully Sam dipped his plastic clown cup into the goldfish bowl.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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Disregarding the roses and raptures of vice, she paints, with a small brush dipt in gilt, the lilies and languors of virtue.
From Time Magazine Archive
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For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see .
From Time Magazine Archive
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And was his father, the most despotic and violent of baronets, and very much dipt, likely to listen to sentimental twaddle pleading against a hundred thousand a year?
From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
Shafts for shuttles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along; Swords, that once a monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong.
From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Carruthers, Robert
Her voice is vibrant beauty dipt In dreams of infinite sorrow and delight.
From Song-Surf by Rice, Cale Young
With temperatures dipping around Madrid, "there is a real opportunity now to tackle this fire with some guarantee of success," the central government's delegate in the Spanish capital, Francisco Martin, told reporters late Friday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Nitrocellulose was invented in the mid-19th century, when Swiss chemist Christian Friedrich Schönbein accidentally discovered that cotton became violently flammable after dipping in an acid mix.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
If you had an unusually low-income year and can carefully manage your taxable income, or can spread withdrawals over several years instead of taking a single large distribution, dipping into your traditional IRA makes sense.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
“I think they’re right to to be concerned that our plan won’t come to fruition,” said Franklin, who opposed dipping into the retiree benefits fund.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
I reached down and laid my palm over his, just for a moment, before picking up the pen and dipping it in ink.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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