Etymology
Origin of tanked
Example Sentences
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Early in his L.A. tenure, Walden landed a solid gig scoring movies made for television, a business that tanked with the advent of reality TV.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
Read: As global markets tanked over Iran, U.S. stocks were mostly unscathed.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026
In the end, it took a top artificial-intelligence startup to halt a market panic that has tanked the value of software vendors by hundreds of billions of dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Novo’s American depositary receipts dropped 2.7% to $38.58 ahead of the opening bell, having tanked 16% the previous session.
From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026
And then, of course, the economy tanked and the country defaulted on its debt.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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