Example Sentences

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Pressured by growing worries about the disruptive potential of new AI coding tools, shares of large software companies such as Salesforce and ServiceNow have been sliding for months.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies have been sliding since bitcoin prices hit a record peak back in October.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026

They have been sliding again over the past week.

From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025

Oil prices have been sliding with declining demand expectations and now sit more than 40% below a high of nearly $140 a barrel made shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

From Reuters • Dec. 7, 2022

Stamboul and I have been sliding all over it, so of course it would bear an ox.

From A Tale of a Lonely Parish by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)