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Synonyms & Antonyms for nosedive
Synonyms
descent, dip, dive, down, drop, fall, plunge
Antonyms
ascent, climb, rise, rising, soaring, upswing, upturn
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As demand for bonds grew the 10-year Treasury yield took a nosedive on Wednesday, sinking below 1.63%. — Matt Egan, CNN, "Gold climbs to six-year high and bond yields collapse as fears of a global slowdown mount," 7 Aug. 2019 Official forecasts suggest that this kind of hard Brexit risks triggering a recession and the British pound taking a nosedive -- but Johnson warned that the UK must prepare for such a scenario. — Jessie Yeung, CNN, "Boris Johnson's Conservative Party suffers UK by-election defeat," 2 Aug. 2019 Then, as the economy took a nosedive, Speyer pulled out and Ross was able to recover, restructuring the deal to include stalling mechanisms that allowed the company to wait out the economy. — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, "How the megadevelopment era shapes cities today," 30 July 2019 Almost nobody saw the nosedive in bond yields coming, but a few players were positioned well enough to profit. — Daniel Kruger, WSJ, "Some Investors Had Hunch Yields Were About to Fall," 9 June 2019 Dealmaking involving Texas companies took a nosedive during the first half of 2019. — Claire Poole Texas Lawbook, Houston Chronicle, "Texas dealmaking nosedives in first half," 19 July 2019 Sure, the Badgers’ run defense took a nosedive last year—from third in the country in 2017 to 50th—but more than anything, this team has been in need of a quarterback in recent seasons. — Joan Niesen, SI.com, "Ryan Day Taking Over at Ohio State and Other Top Storylines to Watch as Fall Camps Near," 1 July 2019 Pivotal Software took a nosedive after the cloud-computing company slashed its revenue forecast for the year. — Washington Post, "US stocks rise again, though energy shares slump with oil," 5 June 2019 In Boeing simulations of the crash, the window between when the system engaged and when the plane's nosedive became irreversible could be as small as 40 seconds. — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, "Lion Air Pilots Had Less Than a Minute to Avert Fatal Crash," 27 Mar. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'nosedive.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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