down on

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Definition of down onnext

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Recent Examples of down on The video provided by the zoo showed Ping Ping and Fu Shuang chowing down on bamboo stalks and enjoying their habitat. — Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026 Options trading in clean-energy stocks, particularly solar companies, surged on Tuesday, despite a five-month sell-off in the group that’s left most of the companies in the industry group down on the year. — Oliver Renick, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2026 In February 2022, as missiles rained down on Kyiv, Aydin loaded his car with steel tanks filled with IVMED patients’ frozen eggs, sperm, and embryos and shuttled them out of the country and to a safe harbor in Slovakia. — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026 North Carolina went 8 of 11 on third down on Saturday and managed to move the chains twice on fourth down. — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 1 Nov. 2026 Outside San Antonio’s Stable Hall music venue, the Texas sun beats down on Marín and her six bandmates. — Zoey Goto, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2026 And down on the court at what is now M&T Bank Center at Gampel Pavilion on campus or PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford, there must be standard bearers, the current flesh and heartbeat and faces of UConn basketball. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026 On opening day, several customers in scrubs chowed down on sandwiches, assumingly during their lunch break. — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026 Since then, Netflix has doubled and quadrupled down on the bet that people wouldn’t sweat the difference between algorithmic streaming content and traditional studio fare. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2026

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