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as in drop
the act or process of going to a lower level or altitude the pilot struggled to pull his plane out of a nosedive

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verb

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Recent Examples of nosedive
Noun
And the center has experienced a nosedive in yearly subscriptions. Joey Garrison, USA Today, 4 June 2025 Just prior to Trudeau’s exit, the Liberal Party was expected to take a nosedive in the federal election against Poiliervre’s Conservative Party – but Trump appears to have changed all that. Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025 That nosedive reflects investor concerns about how steep tariffs on China, Taiwan, Vietnam and other manufacturing hubs could impact technology companies, analysts said. Alain Sherter, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2025 The season certainly started off with a bang, but grosses took a nosedive in the latter half as the life raft once provided by the foreign box office nearly deflated and a glut of male-skewing tentpoles battled for scraps. Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for nosedive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nosedive
Noun
  • Sabalenka, who has the much greater variety of the two players, started to bring the drop shot into play.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Ultimately, costly mistakes — a Miles Sanders red zone fumble in the third quarter and three drops from CeeDee Lamb in the fourth quarter — gave the Eagles a slim 24-20 victory.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The design featured a plunging V-neck design that stopped at her navel, a skirt decorated in fringe and floral appliqués placed throughout.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The graft and fraud investigations signal that state corruption which helped plunge Greece into a 2009-2018 debt crisis persists, despite reforms and tough austerity under three international bailouts.
    Angeliki Koutantou, Reuters, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The first trend is the significant dip roughly a century ago.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Los Angeles Unified schools experienced a dip in student attendance in some communities where immigration enforcement was reported at the end of last school year, said Britt Vaughan, a spokesperson for the district.
    Kayla Jimenez, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • National Weather Service meteorologists consider forecasting waterspouts during the late summer and fall whenever large, cool air masses overspread the waters of the Great Lakes.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Department of Buildings told CBS News New York and News 12 Long Island that a 10-by-10-inch section of the ceiling collapsed due to possible water damage, and pieces of the building fell on customers dining inside.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Paluel faced similar power declines in 2016 when a steam generator weighing more than 450 tons collapsed while being moved, causing the plant to be shut down before coming back online a year later.
    Theo Burman Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The world is also facing exponential declines in biodiversity, primarily among insects.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Lisbon, Portugal Lisbon, Portugal’s coastal capital, is built across seven mighty hills that tumble toward the Tagus River.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Constellation Brands shares tumbled more than 6% after the Modelo and Corona parent company cut its outlook for the fiscal year.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • With the head of the Demon Corps in danger, Tanjiro and the Hashira rush to the headquarters but are plunged into a deep descent to a mysterious space by the hands of Muzan Kibutsuji.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • For Watermelon Pictures founders Hamza and Badie Ali, both of Palestinian descent, that political message is inseparable from their company’s mission.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But what of Daedalus, his poor father who watched his son plummet into the sea?
    Natalie Zutter September 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Witnesses reported seeing the two planes clip each other before plummeting to the ground.
    Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025

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