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Recent Examples of downdraft
Meteorologists attributed the damage to powerful dry microbursts known as virga bombs, where evaporating rain triggers sudden and violent downdrafts.
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Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 2 July 2025
Wrapped around the bright spot of the updraft, darker patches shown in Juno's data mark where downdrafts carried a slushy mix of ammonia and water back down to the Jovian depths.
—Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2025
The downdraft was despite a Mainland China media report noting that early sales for the 618 (June 18) shopping festival, similar to Singles Day, were up fourfold year-over-year (YoY), with 80,000 brands seeing double the turnover and 500 million orders already placed.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Target, one of the nation's largest retailers, on Wednesday reported weaker sales for the first quarter and warned of a potential downdraft over the rest of the year as Americans react to U.S. tariffs by pulling back on consumption.
—Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 21 May 2025
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Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 2 July 2025
Wrapped around the bright spot of the updraft, darker patches shown in Juno's data mark where downdrafts carried a slushy mix of ammonia and water back down to the Jovian depths.
—Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2025
The downdraft was despite a Mainland China media report noting that early sales for the 618 (June 18) shopping festival, similar to Singles Day, were up fourfold year-over-year (YoY), with 80,000 brands seeing double the turnover and 500 million orders already placed.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Target, one of the nation's largest retailers, on Wednesday reported weaker sales for the first quarter and warned of a potential downdraft over the rest of the year as Americans react to U.S. tariffs by pulling back on consumption.
—Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for downdraft
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The quarterly rebalanced mix of large-, mid-, and small-cap RV Portfolio stocks offered a responsive strategy to capitalize on favorable market conditions while minimizing losses during market downturns, as detailed in RV Portfolio performance metrics.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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That downturn means lower revenue from distribution and advertising.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
8 Aug. 2025
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Top-line revenue growth also accelerated slightly quarter-over-quarter, even though analysts were expecting a slowdown there.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Higher speeds allow more devices to connect at once without slowdowns.—
Kara McGinley,
USA Today,
11 Aug. 2025
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Stability has served Liverpool well, but the risk of stagnation always loomed in the background, testing even Klopp’s famed energy and powers of motivation.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
12 Aug. 2025
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And that resell value has renewed heated interest into a brand that for a while, was meeting a tad of (anecdotal) stagnation in the market.—
Curtis Silver,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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The early 2020s likely marked the end of a decades-long yield downtrend, especially amid rising U.S. debt.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Economic divergence Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg, sees the dollar resuming its downtrend by early 2026 at the latest because of the relative trend growth differential between the U.S. and the euro zone looking ahead.—
Jenni Reid,
CNBC,
31 July 2025
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Every phase of the swing—backswing, downswing, and follow-through—imposes distinct biomechanical loads on the spine.—
Richard Menger MD MPA,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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Even at 37 years old, on the downswing of his career — and even coming back from chronic inflammatory response syndrome and symptoms of long COVID — this is a job Toews might succeed in.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
21 June 2025
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“Downdraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downdraft. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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