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
Related: 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. 13, 2026
He also owned a book that told the stories of all the great operas, which he’d dip into from time to time.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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
Crackers have spent enough time under cheese, beside soup, tucked politely next to salads and dips.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
With the second half of the year in motion, JPMorgan is advising investors to take advantage of any dips in global equities, including the recent pullback for chip stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
As the glacier inched over humps and dips in the Cwm’s underlying strata, it fractured into countless vertical fissures—crevasses.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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Excluding sales at auto dealers and gasoline stations, sales dipped 0.2 percent on a month-on-month basis.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
Though gold prices have dipped since January, to around $4,500 an ounce, that is more than double from early 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
The dog’s name was Churro because his fur was cinnamon colored, like a churro, and his black snout made it look like he’d been dipped in chocolate.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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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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All possible means must be us'd to dissolve 'em, by laying Slices of Beef upon the Part, renewing 'em very often, or applying Linnen Rags dipt in Spirit of Wine impregnated with Saffron.
From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc
A Man, torn by the bite of a savage Dog, threw a piece of bread, dipt in his blood, to the offender; a thing that he had heard was a remedy for the wound.
From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
It should be dipt in boiling water, squeezed dry, and floured, when to be used.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
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
It meant when a point was harshly deducted for dipping his head low, the Englishman was trailing overall.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
With headline inflation dipping in June, ahead of further rises expected ahead, analysts say they do not expect a rate hike at this meeting -- but that the decision will likely see some dissenting voices.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
If you had an unusually low-income year and can carefully manage your taxable income, or can spread withdrawals over several years instead of taking a single large distribution, dipping into your traditional IRA makes sense.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
By the time they got to the top the sun was dipping lower, smearing the sky with color, and Rishi was trying his best not to look like he was dying.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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