NOSE-DIVED Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

nose-dived

verb

past tense of nose-dive

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 The remarks come as faith in the nation’s highest public health agency has nose-dived. — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 15 July 2026 American sympathies had been shifting toward the Palestinians and away from the Israelis since around 2020, according to other polling, but has nose-dived since the latest war in Gaza began. — Steve Peoples, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026 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. — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 27 May 2026 Those bills landed in collections, and her credit score nose-dived. — Sarah Kwon, CBS News, 20 May 2026 Trust in Netanyahu’s government nose-dived after the deadly 2023 Hamas attack. — 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. — 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. — 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. — Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2026

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Countless trees were felled and taken to Eugene for processing in mills or floated up the Willamette to Portland, the sawn trunks chained together in massive, bobbing rafts.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Messi had produced another vintage performance three weeks earlier, this time at the Nou Camp, where the Bayern Munich defender Jerome Boateng toppled over like a tree that had been felled.

— Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 10 July 2026

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SpaceX stock has plunged below the IPO price of $135 a share and is now 45% below its high, which briefly put its market cap above Microsoft’s.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 July 2026
Other food companies that sell fresh lettuce also saw their shares drop, like salad chain Sweetgreen, which plunged nearly 13% this week, and fast casual chain Cava, which sank more than 3%.

— Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 17 July 2026

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This mixture is pushed through an extruder to form tiny, sprinkle-like cylinders, which are then tumbled in a rapidly spinning chamber to round them into near-spherical particles.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026
AstraZeneca — The biopharmaceutical company tumbled 8% after its heart disease drug, Wainua, failed to meet its target in a late-stage clinical trial.

— Michelle Fox, CNBC, 9 July 2026

Definition of tumbled

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Shares dipped below their IPO price of $135 on Wednesday morning for the first time since listing, a humbling loss for the stock, which had skyrocketed more than 50% in its first days of trading last month.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
Public problems and progress SpaceX shares have dipped below their $135 IPO price for the first time, wiping out more than $1 trillion from the value of Elon Musk's group.

— Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 16 July 2026

Definition of dipped

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The business remained open Saturday afternoon, but employees declined to comment on the raid when reached by phone.

— Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2026
When Britain withdrew from the Gulf, Qatar declined to fold into the federation that became the United Arab Emirates and took independence alone in 1971, under Sheikh Ahmad bin Ali, before Hamad's branch of the family held power.

— Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026

Definition of declined

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The toddler plummeted from the rear window of the building on Oak Terrace near Beekman Ave.

— Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 18 July 2026
Mike Blake | Reuters SpaceX stock has posted losses in nine of the last 10 trading days, and as of Friday's close, had plummeted nearly 23% since the company was added to the Nasdaq-100.

— Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 17 July 2026

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