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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

If she moves on to the November runoff and beats De León, she will be the first person of Filipino descent on the council.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024

The emergency lifeline from the central bank has provided the embattled lender with only some relief, with its battered share price resuming its descent on Friday.

From Reuters • Mar. 17, 2023

When Fernández was coming up through art school in the 1990s, there wasn’t a single artist of Latin American descent on the syllabus.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 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