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Housing starts across Canada came in at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate in August of 229,046 units, a 0.1% dip from the month before, and under the 240,000 residential projects expected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

U.S. stock-index futures ES00 YM00 NQ00 are higher as Treasury yields BX:TMUBMUSD10Y dip.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

Such a dip is not unusual following the assassination of a central founding figure like Kirk, says Mark Brewer, chair of the political science department at the University of Maine.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

The shop wasn’t Cassaday’s first dip into selling vintage goods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

“I’m off to work on a film for a couple of weeks, but when I get back, I’ll dip in,” she promised.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Households across the UK are being warned to brace for higher energy bills this winter as European countries scramble to replenish their natural gas stores before the weather dips.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The U.S. oil benchmark has been making small dips, then moving sideways briefly before rising again.

From MarketWatch ● 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

The study by researchers at Rutgers and Cornell universities found that frequent job switchers had smaller initial dips in performance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

He removes the rag from my forehead, dips it in water, and then squeezes out the excess.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

National sales of existing homes dipped 0.7% during August and, in non-seasonally adjusted terms, the figure dropped 6.9% from a year earlier, data released Tuesday by the Canadian Real Estate Association showed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Sure enough, when De Paula stepped into the batter’s box at Loan Depot Park, he wasn’t tempted to swing at the first-pitch curveball that dipped below the zone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Yields on 10-year US Treasuries and Japanese government bonds of the same length both dipped.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

There clearly is some tension behind the scenes and this season his development performance-wise has clearly dipped.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

He dipped his pen in the inkwell and wrote out a few more lines.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

We had proceeded only about a quarter of a mile, when the float suddenly dipt.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

The Rhombus is cur'd by laying upon it a Bolster dipt in fair Water, between the Folds of which must be put a little Salt, to dissolve and prevent the Suppuration.

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

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

“I’m dipping nuggets you’ve never heard of into sources you could never understand,” she declares bluntly, causing us to cackle out of sheer surprise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The WSJ’s Jean Eaglesham writes that, after dipping on earlier hopes of a lasting ceasefire, rates have shot back up, brokers said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

As we drove to the trailer, the sun dipping in the sky, its last rays reaching across the highway, I thought about the Apache women.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover