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dive

[dahyv] / daɪv /




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Earnings from Facebook-parent Meta and chip equipment maker Lam Research this week have beaten forecasts but seen their shares dive.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Your daily dive into MarketWatch, featuring story spotlights, market movers and more you Need To Know to start your day.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

In the past, he said his drones could maneuver to evade Russian air defenses, for instance, by going into a steep dive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Early on a Tuesday evening, I arrived at a local dive bar for a show by Dream Syndicate.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

She stops and stares as I close my eyes and dive headfirst into the hill of muck, hoping it'll keep me safe.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

“It’s how to take technical deep dives into strategies and tell those stories in a neat, accessible way that’s relatable.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

The WSJ’s Asa Fitch dives into why Treasury yields haven’t moved up despite hot inflation reports this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Researchers collected the newly described species between September 2023 and August 2024 during dives reaching depths of up to 18 meters.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

Organisers said the amount of waste collected shows that there's a lot of work to do, and the team will now support regular dives throughout the year.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

After many dives and examinations, it was determined that the layers of silt that had covered the submarine for so long had preserved it well enough that it could be brought to the surface intact.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Hong Kong also dived more than three percent, with NetEase and Tencent taking a battering, while Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com were also weighed by government calls for tighter quality standards.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

And in Tokyo the Nikkei 225 shed more than five percent as Kioxia also dived more than 11 percent and Advantest plunged 14.5 percent.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Broncos quarterback Bo Nix passed for two second-half touchdowns and dived one yard for a touchdown with 47 seconds left.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

SK Hynix stock dived 30% in premarket trade in Seoul before recovering much of the lost value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

He dived in and out of the lodge, snagged food wherever he could get it, fell asleep on the blankets Deydey kept spread in the corner near Fishtail and Day Thunder’s drum.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

It dove out of the bottom of the strikezone, and Baldwin swung through it, ending the inning on a strikeout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

To open the fifth, he induced Salas to hit the ball on the ground, but it got away from second baseman Tommy Edman as he dove up the middle, for a single.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

I heard a lot of stories like this as I dove into the world of medbeds.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

The dove, famous for its place in the Twelve Days of Christmas song, is the country's fastest declining bird species according to the RSPB.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

He opened it and crawled out, then dove for the oak tree, catching a thick branch and swinging.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Bit by bit, Disney is continuing to shape itself into something more like its former nemesis, Netflix, including by diving more into the vertical-video and A.I. future while licensing visual podcasts as TV shows.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Today the islands are home to fewer than 50,000 people and are best known for beaches, diving and some World War II battlefields.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

Betts made a diving stop at short but had no chance at throwing out Dubón.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Michigan would be 3-4 and diving into a murk-off with Rutgers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

In 1958, some three thousand years later, photojournalist Peter Throckmorton was completing his second summer aboard a sponge diving vessel captained by Kemal Aras.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler


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