as in fell
to go to a lower level especially abruptly
prices on just about everything nose-dived right after the holidays
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Recent Examples of nose-dived
Trump’s approval on the economy, meanwhile, has nose-dived, with only 33% of voters giving him positive marks in a recent New York Times/Siena College poll.
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Garrett Downs,
CNBC,
27 May 2026
Those bills landed in collections, and her credit score nose-dived.
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Sarah Kwon,
CBS News,
20 May 2026
Trust in Netanyahu’s government nose-dived after the deadly 2023 Hamas attack.
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ABC News,
26 Apr. 2026
The noise of the engines, the mounting anxiety of his wife and sister-in-law, who may have cried out as the plane nose-dived, could only have increased his own.
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Jeffrey Eugenides,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2026
The program nose-dived following the firing of Al Skinner after the 2009-10 season with BC going 184-290, including a 73-200 mark in the ACC, over the past 15 seasons.
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Greg Dudek,
Boston Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
Corals bleached and their population nose-dived, especially in the Keys, where water temperatures hit a Jacuzzi-like 101 degrees.
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Arkansas Online,
8 Mar. 2026
Study after study has shown that over the past decade, American students’ reading abilities have nose-dived, along with reading habits.
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Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Jan. 2026
Attendance has nose-dived since.
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Ronald J. Hansen,
AZCentral.com,
8 Aug. 2025
Garrett Downs,
CNBC,
27 May 2026
Those bills landed in collections, and her credit score nose-dived.
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Sarah Kwon,
CBS News,
20 May 2026
Trust in Netanyahu’s government nose-dived after the deadly 2023 Hamas attack.
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ABC News,
26 Apr. 2026
The noise of the engines, the mounting anxiety of his wife and sister-in-law, who may have cried out as the plane nose-dived, could only have increased his own.
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Jeffrey Eugenides,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2026
The program nose-dived following the firing of Al Skinner after the 2009-10 season with BC going 184-290, including a 73-200 mark in the ACC, over the past 15 seasons.
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Greg Dudek,
Boston Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
Corals bleached and their population nose-dived, especially in the Keys, where water temperatures hit a Jacuzzi-like 101 degrees.
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Arkansas Online,
8 Mar. 2026
Study after study has shown that over the past decade, American students’ reading abilities have nose-dived, along with reading habits.
—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Jan. 2026
Attendance has nose-dived since.
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Ronald J. Hansen,
AZCentral.com,
8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nose-dived
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The most dangerous situation appeared to be on Barrington Avenue, west of East Dundee Village Hall, where a light, a utility pole and part of a parkway tree were felled by strong winds, leaving power lines dangling across the road.
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John Adams famously wrote to his wife, Abigail, that smallpox was killing 10 soldiers for every one felled in battle.
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Yves Seguy, the regional prefect, told BFM the aircraft plunged vertically to the ground.
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On the eve of the 2024 Summer Olympics, hosted by Paris, a wetsuited Hidalgo had plunged herself into the Seine.
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The show was so sure-footed in its initial outing, but has ultimately tumbled headlong into a grease trap of its own making, aiming for pungent but landing on precious.
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Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images Micron Technology's shares tumbled on Friday, giving back some of the gains from a post-earnings rally, as the memory chipmaker looked to wrap a rocky week of trading that has seen big swings.
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The numbers behind the downturn Wine consumption has dipped to historic lows.
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For stargazers who have dipped their toes into the world of binoculars and telescopes, prices stack up quickly and even one purchase can wipe out thousands of dollars.
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District officials declined to provide the correspondence with Carvalho, instead assigning the request to the district’s Public Records Act unit, where some requests for records have taken years to resolve.
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The public prosecutor’s office declined to comment on the case when reached by CNN.
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As housing values plummeted, millions of Americans, many of them stuck with outsize mortgage debt, lost homes to foreclosure.
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According to the report, animals are staying in the facility longer, animal deaths have increased and vital transfers to outside rescue organizations have plummeted sharply from over 4,700 down to just 1,159.
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Meanwhile, the president’s approval rating on the economy dropped to 33% last week in an NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll — his lowest ever for that poll and 3 points below former President Biden’s worst reading on the question during his term.
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The point Algeria picked up for the draw gave them four for the tournament, one more than Iran gained in their three matches in Group G, and dropped Iran to the ninth spot among the third place teams, one shy of making the round of 32.
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