dip
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Their messaging has remained understandably positive and confident in their product despite this dip in crowds.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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
A meet-up with Meyers’ “artistic community,” a circle of so-called intellectuals known as the Enthusiasm Society, leads Ed to humbly dip a toe back into his vanished creative side.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Don’t miss: ‘My wife and I are both retired’: Do we dip into our $2.3 million fund to pay off our $300,000 mortgage at 2.9%?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
“But charge for the dip bait,” Colton added.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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“This is reflected in the ever-shorter and ever-shallower dips in key indexes, and by the relatively violent reactions when good news justifies an upward revaluation,” he adds.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 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
A folding-phone concern for years has been the “crease”—where the inside display dips between the two halves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
One of the birds dips in and pops up again with a fish in its bill.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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Nobody wants to order mozzarella sticks anymore, they want the adventure of finding the best secret combo of mozzarella sticks dipped into various sauces in the cornucopia of a Chili’s Triple Dipper.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
The probability of a September hike dipped below 50% after the release of Wednesday’s report, according to CME Group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Yields on 10-year and 30-year Treasury bonds briefly dipped after Friday’s July payrolls report showed a surprise decline in the number of jobs, but the move was quickly reversed — something Rosenberg flagged as concerning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Despite fewer jobs being created, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the unemployment rate actually dipped to 4.1% from 4.2%, as the number of people in work or looking for work declined slightly.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
If you weren’t careful, the plane’s nose dipped as you landed it, and then the whole plane would flip over onto its back.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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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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Only the Wasps, Hornets and Humble-Bee, must be dryed in an Oven, their heads dipt in Sheeps blood, and dryed again, may be kept in a Box for use.
From The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing by Robert Howlett
Why, you see, last year I was dipt a little to the fishmonger, and wrote a matrimonial letter home hinting at trousseaus and other expenses, but mentioning no names.
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Herbert Willis
The Tench, is a great lover of large Red Worms, first dipt in Tar.
From The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing by Robert Howlett
Now after several months away, Le is dipping his toes back into crypto.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Díaz’s velocity was down to begin the year, dipping to about 95.5 mph in his last two outings before landing on the injured list.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
It meant when a point was harshly deducted for dipping his head low, the Englishman was trailing overall.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Wall Street opened broadly stable, with the Nasdaq Composite dipping 0.1 percent as tech stocks continued to struggle.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Thus confused, my mind turned this way and that, like a paper kite dipping to every current of air, unsure of its own meanings.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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