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The U.S. stock market sits just a fraction below record highs after another slide — on renewed valuation concerns about AI companies — triggered an even faster rally, as chips and hyperscaler plays bounced.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Operating income totaled $858 million, a 17% slide from 2025, driven largely by higher programming costs tied to the timing of new rights deals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The phenomenon happens when fluids - in this case hot gases - slide past each other and cause small disturbances to grow into spiralling vortices.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The Japanese government intervened to put a floor under the currency at around 160 yen to the dollar in April and May, but the currency’s slide soon resumed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
An avalanche might slide down at any time.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Confirming these ideas is difficult because sperm observed on glass slides often behave differently from sperm moving inside the much more complicated environment of the female body.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
After the judge forbade them from using certain PowerPoint slides, Halem’s former attorneys decided against presenting an opening statement to jurors, scuttling any possibility of a favorable outcome, Weimortz said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The life I pictured appeared in View-Master slides, each image crisp and complete, with all the inconvenient connective tissue outsourced.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Those slides have raised concerns over people who have borrowed money to invest in stocks, leading to South Korean authorities taking action to curb the practice.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Once the boards are back in place, Mrs. Bessermann slides under that bed, while Siunek crawls beneath the new one I bought off a junk cart five days ago.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
A measure of employment slid below 50% and back into negative territory for the fourth time in the past five months.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The stock slid 14% to $35.40 in post-market trading following the results on Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
"The land above the cave… slid after the heavy rain that lasted throughout the night," Dagnachew Azbite, a senior local official, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Treasury yields slid in Asian trade as oil prices fell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
He slid a sweating cold six of bottled iced tea in the fridge, staying tradish by bringing food to the family home he’d entered.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Lovely, slidden pass by Tielemans, and a lovely, calm, delayed finish by Iheancho.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2021
He had slidden to the end of his tether,—the other end of which was fast to the drogue drifting about in the sea, as already said, on the opposite side of the carcass.
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Reid, Mayne
Ages ago a glacier must have slidden down there, and left its mark on the huge boulders which lay scattered everywhere around.
From For the School Colours by Brazil, Angela
They must have been warned, or they would have tripped and slidden as maidens.
From Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)
He sat with bowed head, softly caressing the white jewelled hand which had slidden down from his shoulder.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
Then, after another sliding catch by Pages and a strikeout, he gave up a single to Crow-Armstrong and walked Seiya Suzuki.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The yen has been sliding despite previous interventions and comments by Katayama that Japan was ready to act, remarks aimed at deterring investors from betting on the currency sliding further.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Well before today’s war, Iran was sliding toward becoming a failed state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Trading on South Korea's benchmark Kospi index was paused temporarily on Tuesday morning after sliding by 8%.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
He blinked hard, sitting upright so fast that he had to clutch Boaz tight to keep him from sliding onto the floor.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
