Example Sentences

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The People's Bank of China has to cut interest rates, and the yuan is skidding to two-year lows against the dollar.

From Reuters • Aug. 23, 2022

In the hour before dusk, Marty Singer, the man celebrities call when a career is skidding toward scandal, stepped to a window on the 24th floor of his Century City law firm.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2017

He sets up no depreciation fund to buy new equipment, and the number of riders on his buses is skidding fast.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its stock is skidding along near a nine-month low.

From Time Magazine Archive