slide
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However, it rose 3% in premarket trading on Friday, after an initial 7% slide when the results were announced.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
In the days since, the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 have both continued their slide.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Most provocative are the thousands of small seismic tremors that emanated from the area of the slide in the days prior to the mountainside collapsing.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
In 2023 the Pew Research Center, whose birth-year brackets fill corporate slide decks, announced it would compare generations only with data on people at similar stages of life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
If we had left the door open, we could have seen the sky, still bright, with the sun just beginning to slide away in back of the cliffs.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
“The board agreed, the slides went in and we immediately saw a surge of young families,” said Freund, noting that nontraditional facilities often face pushback before eventually winning over skeptics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The Action slides highlighted growth in “FTE patients”—an abbreviation typically used to mean “full-time equivalent.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Presentation slides from the company emphasized its gradual reduction of outstanding shares over more than a decade as increasing "the potential for operating performance to translate into stronger per-share results."
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
A carousel of 135 slides dating from 1976 to 1996 will accompany the four-gallery survey, underscoring the role documentation has played in preserving work created in remote locations for brief periods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
She turns back and hits the button on the wall, sucking out the golden light of Sagan’s sun and moons as it slides shut.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
I slid down that trail with my leg dragging behind me and injured my right knee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Treasury yields edged higher in Asian trade on Friday, having slid sharply on Thursday as investors sought safe havens from the turmoil in French government bonds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Shares for the fast-food chain have slid 50% this year as its sales sag.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
European stock indexes slid in opening trade as higher oil prices and another tech wobble weighed on sentiment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Grumbling and grunting, they slid into the water.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
Lovely, slidden pass by Tielemans, and a lovely, calm, delayed finish by Iheancho.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2021
But all the time that it is at work the table is being slidden backwards and forwards on the slides.
The earth, saturated with moisture, had slidden from their steep slopes, houses and cottages were engulfed in the debris, or shattered to fragments by the descending masses, and daylight presented a strange scene of ruin.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various
Thou didst promise; but verily the substance hath slidden from my grasp: whilst I, fond fool, embraced a shadow.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
The slidden boat gave way And the black foamy water split—and met.
From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell
Prices have been sliding the past week despite a string of below-average storage builds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The front end of the van could be seen sliding into the sinkhole, as water continued to gush out from the ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
A large glass sliding door opens to yet another deck, which is just a stone’s throw away from the ocean.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Gold prices have faltered, falling back from record highs earlier this year and sliding further in recent months amid rising bond yields and rate-hike uncertainty.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Tess said, setting her tray down and sliding in next to me.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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