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    nosedive


    1. Think about the high ranking executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack who earned (or embezzled) millions while, thanks to Chris Dodd in the senate and Barney Frank in the House, the two government-backed corporations were taking a nosedive due to the strict (Democrat) implementation of the Community Reinvestment Act, passed under the egregious Jimmy Carter, and expanded and implemented under the equally egregious Bill Clinton


    2. ―I want to hear about your dog, what happened to him… what kind of dog was he? How long did you have him… Oh, I hurt so bad from the wire…‖ Her ersatz courage took a nosedive as a choking sob aborted her plea


    3. business would have taken a very steep nosedive


    4. If the autopilot mode had been switched on it would not have allowed you to enter into a high-speed nosedive; so it had to be you


    5. The Christian Church is going to take a hard nosedive on this in Palestine


    6. It is the characteristic of the life’s curve that while hopes soar with its ascent, dreams nosedive in its descent


    7. Morale took a nosedive as the printers' union saw this as a direct attack


    8. Kirstin’s confidence took a nosedive


    9. nosedive because it will look as though you are being financially


    10. The class which had sounded so promising was quickly taking a nosedive

    11. took a nosedive into the giant hole as she came


    12. It’s pretty safe to say that when you see broad measures of volatility taking a nosedive into expiration week, you won’t see much volatility on actual expiration week, which of course should give you some inkling that you should at least sift through your portfolio and find some pin candidates


    13. Certainly once you retire you need a reliable source from which to withdraw money if the stock market should nosedive, so having a solid position in bonds becomes crucial


    14. ” Thus, should your positions in the market take a nosedive, you don’t need to deceive yourself by hoping they will bounce back, or worse, by denial or by blocking out the situation, as some traders have been known to bury their trades in such dire situations


    15. The Claymore/Bank of NY Mellon Frontier Markets ETF (NYSE: FRN) began trading in June 2008 just as the global stock markets were about to take a nosedive


    16. Even worse, the economy went into recession in the 1920s and into nosedive in the 1930s


    17. When I pointed out the obvious (that his chart looked like a nosedive off a tall building with nothing to stop it), he countered with various "yeah buts


    18. The general market had taken a 29% nosedive, and we were right on only one of every three commitments we had made in this account


    19. And how about the aforementioned Citigroup, the New York City bank that so many institutional investors owned? I don’t care how much it paid in dividends; if you owned Citigroup at $50 and watched it nosedive to $2, when it was in the process of going bankrupt until the government bailed it out, you lost an enormous amount of money


    20. In the early morning of January 17, 1995, an earthquake hit in Japan, causing its stock market to take a nosedive

    21. If the ES sells off and the AUDJPY also takes a nosedive, then you know that the selling in the stock market is for real


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    Synonyms for "nosedive"

    dive nose dive nosedive

    "nosedive" definitions

    a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline


    a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft


    plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft