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tumble

[tuhm-buhl] / ˈtʌm bəl /


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It has been a forehead-slapping tumble for a team some people predicted might wind up in the Super Bowl, which will be played at SoFi Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

Hong Kong-listed shares of Merdeka Gold tumble 13%, while Indonesia-listed shares drop 6.7%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

They walk around obstacles, move across ordinary objects, and sometimes tumble from the edges of tables.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

But using such ETFs as trading tools to speculate that stocks will climb can be extremely painful if they tumble instead.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

The evergreen arch wouldn’t stay firm after she got it up, but wiggled and threatened to tumble down on her head when the hanging baskets were filled.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Was he fretful this just might be the day the record tumbles?

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

A snow globe in his hand tumbles to the ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Routines are made up of familiar stunts, jumps, gymnastic tumbles and classic cheer chants, but modified to account for the needs of teammates.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

After the panicky Ray-Ray passes his guitar case to Sonny, out tumbles . . . a guitar, not the shotgun Sonny expected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

It tumbles to the floor, the top falling open.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

In company news, Japanese tech investment giant SoftBank tumbled as much as eight percent in Tokyo after reporting a more than $7 billion loss in the fiscal second quarter.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

Children’s Place’s stock tumbled 41.8% on Monday, and is down more than 95% so far this year.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

The stock has tumbled in the past month but CEO Michael Intrator is pushing back.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

Shares of Nvidia, the poster child of the AI boom, tumbled 9.3% to $181.60, wiping out hundreds of billions of dollars in market value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Håkon’s trouser legs shredded away as his long ruby tail with golden spines tumbled out.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

The first fight in 2024 had Buatsi walking to the ring as a comfortable favourite, and he backed that up with crushing body shots to send Hutchinson tumbling twice.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

With many highflying technology stocks tumbling, you might be wondering what’s in store for the stock market heading into Tuesday’s midterm elections, especially given uncertainty about inflation and interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Despite traveling so quickly, the snakes were able to follow a narrow racetrack measuring just 20 centimeters across, demonstrating that their rolling movements are not simply uncontrolled tumbling.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Telecom stocks are tumbling on news that SpaceX is aiming to secure 80,000 cell sites across the US, raising the specter of fierce competition between the industry’s big three and Starlink Mobile.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Any second now, it would all come tumbling down and bury me in confusion.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia


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