dip
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He said Thursday’s bounce saw retail investors sell more in response, which is more in line with their normal behavior: buy the dip, then sell the rally.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
The solution for many is a quick trip to the beach for a dip in the ocean, but the timing could not be worse.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Individual investors bought the dip in the Facebook parent, according to flow-tracking firm Vanda Research, snapping up $36 million of shares and making it the second-most popular stock of the session.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
But visa restrictions and federal attempts to overhaul higher education have led to a dip in foreign enrollment, experts say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
But I feel his shoulders dip, his body sigh.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Where the researchers expected to see a smooth spectrum produced by light reflecting from dust, they instead found a pattern of peaks and dips.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Crackers have spent enough time under cheese, beside soup, tucked politely next to salads and dips.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
At club level his conversion rate dips a bit, with 50 goals from 62 attempts.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
And while risks of “renewed flare-ups” and headlines that could rattle investors, those dips should still be bought.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
Jupiter dips her finger into the bowl and holds it up to my mouth.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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SpaceX shares dipped below their IPO price of $135 on Wednesday morning for the first time since listing, signaling dwindling hype around the Elon Musk company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Its share price dipped, however, losing almost two percent on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Xbox has also seen its own struggles lately, with owner Microsoft recently revealing revenues had dipped across its gaming division, external.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Tomato already knows butter from ghee-rich curries, grilled cheese dipped in tomato soup and Marcella Hazan’s famously spare sauce.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
The sun has dipped behind the hills, the twilight coming down, and the streets are clearing.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see .
From Time Magazine Archive
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Disregarding the roses and raptures of vice, she paints, with a small brush dipt in gilt, the lilies and languors of virtue.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mr. Redgrave says of him, "If ever writer dipt his pen in poetry, surely Turner did his facile pencil, and was indeed one of nature's truest poets."
From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by Koehler, S. R.
Suddenly she heard a slight rustle, as though some passing bird's wing had dipt the air.
From Legends of Vancouver by Johnson, E. Pauline
As for outward Applications, Linnen-Rags dipt in the Spirit of Wine impregnated with Camphire and Saffron, are to be laid upon the Tumour, and renew'd as fast as they are dry'd.
From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel
You’ll be glad to know a lot you can do that does not involve dipping into your retirement funds, and/or redirecting valuable time and money away from your own family.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
It meant when a point was harshly deducted for dipping his head low, the Englishman was trailing overall.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Wall Street opened broadly stable, with the Nasdaq Composite dipping 0.1 percent as tech stocks continued to struggle.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
“I think they’re right to to be concerned that our plan won’t come to fruition,” said Franklin, who opposed dipping into the retiree benefits fund.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
I’m dipping my biscuit in the gooey center of my sunny-side-up egg when Mom sits down with her cup of tea.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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