sank
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Things were looking pretty dismal across financial markets overnight: Crude-oil prices surged, and stocks trading in Japan and South Korea sank.
From MarketWatch
Things were looking pretty dismal across financial markets overnight: Crude-oil prices surged, and stocks trading in Japan and South Korea sank.
From MarketWatch
But the precious metal’s price sank overnight and is now down for the year.
As the water sank into the soil, it helped raise groundwater levels in the following decades.
From Los Angeles Times
Tokyo and Seoul, which had been the best performers between the start of the year and the start of the war, both sank more than two percent.
From Barron's
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