nosedive
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Barring a dramatic nosedive, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite are set to finish the April-through-June period with their best quarterly gains in six years.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
If manager Mikel Arteta needs reminding of how a club's rise can quickly be offset by an unexpected nosedive, he need only look at the difficulties Liverpool faced last season.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 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
Somewhere over the winter, as defeats piled up and Spurs tumbled down the standings, they had entered a catastrophic nosedive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
He’d think Ed lost my mind the way Grandpa had, or that Ed run away or been abducted or taken a nosedive off the cliffs.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
The index nevertheless remains at a weak level, having nosedived after the outbreak of the war in Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 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
This time last year, Ulster's form had nosedived and that was reflected in the 2025 Six Nations squad, when only three players were selected.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
The Fed would cut rates quickly and aggressively if hiring nosedived, layoffs piled up and the unemployment rate rose from its current 4.4% level toward 5%.
From MarketWatch ● 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
But over the next three years funding slid back to pre-pandemic levels, falling to $23 billion in 2024, then nosediving in 2025, when healthcare VCs raised an estimated $7 billion, according to SVB.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 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
He was appointed as central bank governor in 2014 by then-President Goodluck Jonathan, with Mr Buhari reappointing him in 2019, despite the economy nosediving under his tenure.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2023
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
It’s hard to watch such rapid nosediving, even for people who subscribe to the long-standing investment advice to “buy and hold.”
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022
