nosedive
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The deal ballooned Whirlpool’s net debt to more than $6 billion just as the U.S. housing market took a nosedive amid spiking interest rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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
“They took this nosedive, and it seemed inexplicable,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 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
I looked like a bird going down for prey or a big kite taking a nosedive.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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
At one stage, it looked as if Chelsea would be in the Champions League, but their form has nosedived to such an extent that they might not make Europe via the league at all.
From BBC ● Apr. 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
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
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
Captain Maro Itoje, whom Borthwick appointed at the start of 2025 to lead the team, insisted that England's nosediving form came down to him and his fellow players, rather than the coaches.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
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
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
Wall Street recoiled over the inflation report last Tuesday, with the Dow Jones industrial average nosediving more than 1,200 points on fears that the Fed would have to keep up with its supersized hikes.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022
