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[dip] / dɪp /








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For governments and central banks around the world, the dip could be seen as a buying opportunity.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

The retailer’s first-quarter earnings on Thursday could give investors a reason to buy the dip, Jefferies says.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

His official title is "specialist mentor" and he will dip in and out to work with the white-ball teams through to the 50-over World Cup next autumn.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

A year after my divorce, I wanted to dip my toe back into dating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

And she bakes bread—real bread to dip into it.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

PepsiCo will be raising prices on some of its chips, dips and sodas in the months ahead, creating confusion and concern among analysts after the company cut prices earlier in the year.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

"We also plan to stay here our whole lives," George adds, explaining that they are prepared to ride out any dips in the property market.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

From a technical perspective, dips back into the mid-to-low $70s will likely be well-supported, says Sycamore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

He dips his hand into the water, like he’s reaching for something, but I don’t know what.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

I dipped my toe back into dating after my divorce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The new high for the critical borrowing benchmark has created starkly different conditions for markets and the economy from the beginning of the decade, when yields dipped well below 1%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

More importantly, his overall impact seems to have dipped.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Exports dipped 2.1 percent to $310.7 billion, the Department of Commerce said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

One of them wore a ribboned hat that dipped and bobbed as she spoke.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

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

What was it meant for, or made for, that minute, But that our lives in delight should be dipt?

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

And was his father, the most despotic and violent of baronets, and very much dipt, likely to listen to sentimental twaddle pleading against a hundred thousand a year?

From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Mr. Redgrave says of him, "If ever writer dipt his pen in poetry, surely Turner did his facile pencil, and was indeed one of nature's truest poets."

From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by S. R. Koehler

Happily, you did not mention dipping into your retirement savings or the need to take out a loan, so I’m hoping those options are not on the table.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Flash fiction, sweeping histories and bold memoirs — discover the highly anticipated fiction and nonfiction our book reviewers are dipping into this autumn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

They can go on flatbread with goat cheese, over toast, or beside good bread for dipping.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

Pedro Porro: The World Cup winner played further forward on the right wing and had a couple of openings, seeing a shot blocked by Hall and a dipping volley go just over.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Can’t see the compass, can’t see the fish, can’t see the end of my oars dipping into the water.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick




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