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The various schemes and lost money sent the agency meant to foster economic development in the Shenandoah Valley area into a tailspin, with several civil lawsuits still pending.

Molly Shannon and Case Walker in The Other TwoThe attention throws Cary’s life into a tailspin, a clever narrative device that reveals how Chase’s fame impacts his siblings.

Since that day in mid-June, Chicago has gone into a full tailspin, losing 19 of its past 25 games.

Domitrovich’s business challenges no longer stem from wary diners or capacity limits that sent sales volume into a tailspin last year.

From Time

Not only is GameStop in a tailspin, but traders are quickly unwinding Monday’s silver rally.

From Fortune

Shockingly, it was not the mass gay-and-straight wedding that sent some of his peers into a tailspin that bothered Beck.

So there we have it: another lewd, dull-witted performance has sent America into a tailspin of indignation.

Then a white supremacist started talking segregation and everything went into a tailspin.

Russia-U.S. relations were in a tailspin when Obama entered office.

Today, it is widely assumed that a default in Greece will send the world into a financial and then economic tailspin.

As she stepped inside this gigantic barrel her mind went into a tailspin.

Yes, he had all but gone into a tailspin, and that with his motor thundering at its best.

Instantly the heavy plane went into a tailspin and plunged earthward.

She side-slipped, her nose dipped down, an she went into a tailspin.

A warning from the observation towersomebody was in tailspin.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tailspin, such as: plunge, slide, coast, crash, declension, and declination.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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