dip
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It’s time to buy the dip in Japanese stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
He observed one stopping for a dip in the garden pool, highlighting the increasingly common overlap between wildlife and residential life in Los Angeles County, where housing developments have spread into bear habitat.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
A dip on Ridgecrest Road south of Elmwood Drive can obscure vehicles from sight, Dailey said, likening pulling out into the intersection to “playing an old-school Frogger game.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
The obvious suspect is an undiagnosed injury, even if Skenes said at the All-Star break that he wasn’t hurt and that the dip in velocity didn’t bother him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
That odd feeling he knows to be a dip in air pressure.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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As the sun dips below the horizon, a fleet of onlookers on jet skis and boats idle on the water to catch a peek of the vivacious scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
They also had smaller initial dips in performance as they got started, researchers at Rutgers and Cornell universities found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
"Gamers are willing to trade a little fidelity for convenience, but not to pay premium prices for something they don't own which stutters when the Wi-Fi dips," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
He pokes his head up at me and barks, then dips down.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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Exports recovered under a deal to reopen the strait, but dipped again after the agreement fell apart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
They had dipped into their savings in the spring to cope with high inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
For the next 13 hours, Barrera waited, vlogging her entire experience as temperatures dipped into the 40s and a brief morning rain washed over the crowd.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
The manager of a food bank says donations of pet food have dipped over the summer and some owners are choosing to feed their animals before themselves.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The unicorn dipped its mouth and sucked them from his palm, leaving it wet with unicorn spit.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see .
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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Carry about with you a leaf of tobacco rolled up in tiffiny or lawn, so dipt in vinegar.
From Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion by Henry James Meller
What boots it for thee to have dipt thy hand In odors wafted from Arabian land?
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings
The Heel or affected Part must be wash'd and dipt in Wine boil'd with Allum and Salt, whereof a Cataplasm may be afterward made, by adding Meal of Rye, Honey, and Brimstone.
From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc
Hordes of international influencers have flown to the U.S. specifically to try the crispy chicken and that renowned dipping sauce.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Officials in the north-eastern Hebei province confirmed that they had verified footage showing individuals dipping cabbages in a solution before loading them onto trucks for transportation.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
He is dipping into his savings and has cut back on expenses such as travel and leisure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
You’ll be glad to know a lot you can do that does not involve dipping into your retirement funds, and/or redirecting valuable time and money away from your own family.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
I stopped at the bathroom on the way back so I could wash my feet since I knew I’d be dipping them in the popcorn.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
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