deep dive

[deep dahyv]

noun

Informal.

1. a thorough or comprehensive analysis of a subject or issue: The article gives you a deep dive into the city's coolest summer activities.

   My boss wants me to do a deep dive on our main competitors.

   The article gives you a deep dive into the city's coolest summer activities.

Other Word Forms

• deep-dive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of deep dive¹

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

"I think it's unfortunate that now there's another thing on that list of topics that we need to do a deep dive into with our patients."

From BBC

Skipper said coaches have commenced a deep dive into the roster to search for players who could provide additional help after the team struggled so mightily in its first three games.

From Los Angeles Times

In this Money Talks: Elizabeth Spiers is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Rivlin to discuss his book AI Valley, a deep dive into the Silicon Valley companies that are competing to create the best–and most profitable–AI model.

From Slate

David does a deep dive into what makes the brand and its founder so unique, including the paradoxes of a wildly successful company trying to remain environmentally sustainable and a billionaire who believes all billionaires to be “policy failures.”

From Slate

He noted that it was easy to sign off on director Scott Cooper’s vision for the movie, which, with its narrow focus on the deep dive of “Nebraska,” he called an “antibiopic.”

From Los Angeles Times