nosedive
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Concentration, decision-making, creativity and productivity all take a nosedive too.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The city repaired 310 miles of road in fiscal year 2025, which ended in June — a nosedive from the 850 miles it paved a decade before in 2015, according to Crosstown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
While Wilson’s career began to nosedive as he played on an expensive contract, Seattle was loading up on the kind of assets that put a team in position to succeed for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Elite LIV Golf players have seen their world rankings nosedive, complicating their ability to qualify for golf's four major championships, whose fields are largely determined by rankings.
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
He soared up and scared an eagle out of its flight path, then plummeted toward the sea like he was born to fly, pulling out of a nosedive at the last second.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
The U.S. jobs market has shown surprising strength in the past few years, even as hiring nosedived in response to higher tariffs, a decline in immigration and general economic uncertainty.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
More than a million Cubans have left the island in recent years, and birth rates have nosedived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
It nosedived in the early months of the pandemic, then rebounded and grew for a while before resuming its downward slide in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
Rahm has not been the major force of old since his move to LIV and Smith's form has nosedived.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
The plane suddenly nosedived as it travelled between Cancun in Mexico and Newark in the United States, and pilots had to land in Tampa, Florida.
From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025
One video showed a drone nosediving toward one of the warehouses as air-raid sirens rang out and a loudspeaker announcement instructed employees to seek shelter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Digital-asset funds experienced a significant downturn in the fourth quarter, with the average fund nosediving 19.2%.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
Only this time, most of the butterflies had died inside the envelopes by the time the guests opened them — and the few that survived ended up nosediving into the fountain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
He added that “an adequately trained pilot could have quickly averted the crises” using other tools in the cockpit to override the errant system and save the nosediving planes.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2022
"We have to get this right as the reputation is nosediving," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2022
