nosedive
Americannoun
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a plunge of an aircraft with the forward part pointing downward.
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a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline.
a time when market values were in a nosedive.
verb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of nosedive
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Concentration, decision-making, creativity and productivity all take a nosedive too.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Barring a dramatic nosedive, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite are set to finish the April-through-June period with their best quarterly gains in six years.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
“They took this nosedive, and it seemed inexplicable,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Somewhere over the winter, as defeats piled up and Spurs tumbled down the standings, they had entered a catastrophic nosedive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
I looked like a bird going down for prey or a big kite taking a nosedive.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
The Sun leads with a "£20m crash probe" after "two pilots steered away from buildings and ejected before the Hawk T2 nosedived and exploded near RAF Valley, North Wales, last month".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
That is six without a victory now, the worst run since 2018-19, when form nosedived after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was confirmed as permanent manager.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Newton notes the Russell 3000 McClellan Summation Index — a breadth indicator — is sitting near its June peak and while, drifting sideways, hasn’t nosedived, which is often the precursor to a bigger downturn.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Shares in Shutterstock nosedived premarket, while Getty’s also fell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
More than a million Cubans have left the island in recent years, and birth rates have nosedived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
One video showed a drone nosediving toward one of the warehouses as air-raid sirens rang out and a loudspeaker announcement instructed employees to seek shelter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Digital-asset funds experienced a significant downturn in the fourth quarter, with the average fund nosediving 19.2%.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
Only this time, most of the butterflies had died inside the envelopes by the time the guests opened them — and the few that survived ended up nosediving into the fountain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
Wall Street recoiled over the inflation report last Tuesday, with the Dow Jones industrial average nosediving more than 1,200 points on fears that the Fed would have to keep up with its supersized hikes.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022
He had earlier said the airport's reputation was "nosediving" as passengers queued for hours in order to catch flights.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2022
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