tanked
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“You want to start to free up some assets into something short-term so you aren’t ravaging your portfolio all along, saying ‘Oh shoot, the market just tanked, but I need money now,’” she said.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026
Production tanked during the first and second Gulf Wars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Early in his L.A. tenure, Walden landed a solid gig scoring movies made for television, a business that tanked with the advent of reality TV.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
That gummed up credit markets, tanked the value of money-market funds, and sent global stock markets into a tailspin.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
We’d taken the test the Monday after Marcus’s party, and I knew I’d tanked it when I turned it in.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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