nosedive
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Concentration, decision-making, creativity and productivity all take a nosedive too.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Barring a dramatic nosedive, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite are set to finish the April-through-June period with their best quarterly gains in six years.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
The nosedive, mainly caused by his inability to throw the slider in the zone, made his other pitches look less competitive, and the Orioles started connecting with his fastball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
Somewhere over the winter, as defeats piled up and Spurs tumbled down the standings, they had entered a catastrophic nosedive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
He’d noticed something was wrong when I’d done a nosedive into my cereal without even checking it for trackers first.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
Shares in Shutterstock nosedived premarket, while Getty’s also fell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
The U.S. jobs market has shown surprising strength in the past few years, even as hiring nosedived in response to higher tariffs, a decline in immigration and general economic uncertainty.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
More than a million Cubans have left the island in recent years, and birth rates have nosedived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
Rahm has not been the major force of old since his move to LIV and Smith's form has nosedived.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
The plane suddenly nosedived as it travelled between Cancun in Mexico and Newark in the United States, and pilots had to land in Tampa, Florida.
From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025
But over the next three years funding slid back to pre-pandemic levels, falling to $23 billion in 2024, then nosediving in 2025, when healthcare VCs raised an estimated $7 billion, according to SVB.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Digital-asset funds experienced a significant downturn in the fourth quarter, with the average fund nosediving 19.2%.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
The cryptocoin $Libra quickly rose in value before nosediving, causing severe losses for the majority of people who had invested in it.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2025
Only this time, most of the butterflies had died inside the envelopes by the time the guests opened them — and the few that survived ended up nosediving into the fountain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
Wall Street recoiled over the inflation report last Tuesday, with the Dow Jones industrial average nosediving more than 1,200 points on fears that the Fed would have to keep up with its supersized hikes.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022
