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dip

[dip] / dɪp /








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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

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

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

For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see .

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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