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
“They took this nosedive, and it seemed inexplicable,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 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’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
Chief Financial Officer Roxanne Warner said U.S. consumer confidence nosedived after the war, leading shoppers to shun higher-priced models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
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
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
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
A man driving on an expressway by Wuzhou told Beijing Youth Daily that he saw the plane nosediving into the mountains at 2:23 p.m.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2022
