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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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Her daughter, Samya, was onboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 when the Boeing 737's faulty flight control system caused the plane to enter a nosedive. David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024 After a one-two punch from nasty hurricanes, Irma in 2017 and Ian in 2022, the Florida population of the mollusk took a nosedive. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024 The former president is no longer listed on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world’s 500 richest people, after the stock price for Trump Media – the parent company behind the former president’s social media company Truth Social – took a nosedive. Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024 The report comes days after a packed 787 Dreamliner took a nosedive during a trip from Sydney, Australia to Auckland, New Zealand. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for nosedive 

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