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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
Shares in French luxury-fashion group Kering dropped sharply after a continued slide in sales at its biggest brand Gucci raised further doubts over the prospects for the group’s recovery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Unfortunately for them, semiconductor shares continued their slide this week, as the leveraged ETF fell another 10.8%, according to FactSet.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 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
She would be sitting there, hearing my voice stop and start, slide and shake, and she would not be impressed.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
Lighthouse investor slides that circulated in 2021, just before Cerberus invested, flagged weekly billable therapy at “30+ Hours/Client,” and noted “lifetime revenue per client” of $285,000.
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
Among the worst performers on Japan’s benchmark index, Ibiden drops slides 9.8%, Fujikura falls 8.6%, and Kioxia Holdings 285A -10.38%decrease; red down pointing triangle drops 8.2%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
We spent many weekends sorting through all the photo albums and loose photos we’d amassed or inherited, tossing the duplicate pictures and trashing my dad’s slides that were impossible to view easily.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
As the wall slides into a pocket, a sliver of golden light from inside the room falls over Voxy’s sleep cell.
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
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slid 694 points, or 2.6%, to 26008.86, its biggest drop since June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Shares for the fast-food chain have slid 50% this year as its sales sag.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
S&P 500 futures also fell sharply—down 1%—while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 0.6%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
He slipped and slid when he landed, his nails scraping across the linoleum floor.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
Lovely, slidden pass by Tielemans, and a lovely, calm, delayed finish by Iheancho.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2021
She cut her pincushion in two, But no, not one had slidden through.
From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole
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
He did not appreciate how gradually the snow had slidden down.
From The Young Mountaineers Short Stories by Malcolm Fraser
Here are pieces of rails along which the wheels of locomotives have slidden; the granules have yielded and become plates; they exfoliate or come off in leaves.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
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
A major Mattel MAT 5.11%increase; up pointing triangle shareholder is calling for the toymaker to explore strategic alternatives, as the company deals with a sliding stock and now a chief-executive transition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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
He loved walking on snow; he loved sliding on ice.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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