deep dive

noun

plural deep dives

: an exhaustive investigation, study, or analysis of a question or topic

Researchers … have taken a deep dive into the seismic activity that has shaken the Permian Basin in recent years.

—Midland (Texas) Reporter-Telegram

After discovering that his late father was a war hero, a son takes a deep dive into World War II and the terrors of the Nazi regime.

—Kirkus Reviews

What begins as a deep dive into the business practices of multilevel marketing and direct sales companies … becomes something larger, and even more rage-inducing: a story about the enviable perks of being rich and well connected in America.

—Pete Keeley

Yet a deep dive into the far reaches of Instagram reveals that a golden age of tattoos has arrived …

—Monica Kim

Examples of deep dive in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Only a deeper dive into the pedal travel engages the physical brakes, with a truly invisible transition between the regenerative and friction stoppers. — Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 15 July 2026

This isn’t the time or the place, though, to take a deep dive into what has made today’s pitchers the hardest-throwing, most tech-savvy and most sneakily unpredictable pitchers in the annals of this sport. — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 July 2026

Conducted by researchers at Brandeis University and the University of Chicago’s NORC social research firm, the survey is the federation’s first deep dive into its Jewish population since 2011. — Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 13 July 2026

The three of them do a deep dive on how USMNT crashed out of the World Cup. — Alex Connor, USA Today, 10 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1986, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for deep dive

• alive
• archive
• arrive
• beehive
• connive
• contrive
• deprive
• derive
• khedive
• revive
• survive
• drive