chips are down
Example Sentences
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Shares in CoreWeave, which builds data centers with Nvidia chips, are down 26% since it revealed a delay last month.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
“We’ve seen that here. ... It’s just very hopeful that when the chips are down, people do step up.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
When the chips are down — when he can’t get a solo career off the ground or a regular gig — Slick checks his ego and sells timeshares to make ends meet.
From Salon • May 31, 2024
By that I mean, when the chips are down and some big players are not around for the big games, they do not falter or feel sorry for themselves.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2024
When the chips are down, though, it was still the foot soldier, the infantry, that had to take the ground and hold it, foot by bloody foot.
From Two Timer by Brown, Fredric
