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However, shares slipped in after-hours trading once the report was released, and they continued their descent on Wednesday, falling 7.3% to $142.34.

From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025

The “Only Murders in the Building” and “Emilia Pérez” star, who is of Mexican descent on her father’s side, posted a since-deleted video on Instagram in which she sobbed over the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025

Titan went missing with five people on board shortly after starting its descent on Sunday to the Titanic, the British ocean liner that sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg.

From Reuters • Jun. 21, 2023

To be an American-born athlete of Chinese descent on sport’s most prominent global stage is to be a lightning rod for patriotic, some say nationalistic, sentiment.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022

For the third time, they found that they could not make the descent on the other side.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong