tanked
Example Sentences
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When the news came out, however, Unilever’s stock tanked, eventually scuttling the deal and souring management on bigger ones.
That gummed up credit markets, tanked the value of money-market funds, and sent global stock markets into a tailspin.
From Barron's
Early in his L.A. tenure, Walden landed a solid gig scoring movies made for television, a business that tanked with the advent of reality TV.
From Los Angeles Times
Industrial energy demand tanked and has never recovered as businesses closed down and sought to burn less gas.
See: As global markets tanked over Iran, U.S. stocks were mostly unscathed.
From MarketWatch
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