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chips are down

ADJECTIVE

momentous

Synonyms

STRONGEST

consequential crucial decisive eventful far-reaching fateful historic meaningful memorable notable pivotal significant weighty

WEAK

big considerable critical earth-shaking earth-shattering epochal grave heavy heavy number material of moment outstanding substantial vital

Antonyms

STRONGEST

inconsequential insignificant meaningless ordinary trivial uneventful unimportant unnoteworthy unremarkable unsubstantial

WEAK

immaterial trifling

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Shares in CoreWeave, which builds data centers with Nvidia chips, are down 26% since it revealed a delay last month.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

When the chips are down and they need a big performance, this frail mentality shows itself again.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025

“The chips are down, but that’s not necessarily a powerless place,” Swinton says.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2024

They may lie all the time, but when the chips are down, they gaslight.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2024

When the chips are down, though, it was still the foot soldier, the infantry, that had to take the ground and hold it, foot by bloody foot.

From Two Timer by Brown, Fredric

chips are down

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