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• n  a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline
  the stock took a nosedive
• n  a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft
• v  plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft

• After seemingly an eternity in reality, the nosedive lasted 20 very long seconds the flight crew wrested control of the plane from its wayward computer and made an .
• Cosmic Collision (Space) A NASA spacecraft is about to take a suicidal nosedive into a speeding comet--all for the sake of science.
• Trying to pull his once-frontrunning presidential campaign out of its nosedive, a somber John McCain returned Friday to the campaign trail and the state that had been the scene of .

• dive
• nose dive

News & Articles

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• How John Paulson Lost $630 Million
  It has been a rough couple of months for gold bugs. With the precious metal slowly declining in price since the start of 2013, April's nosedive has driven many investors out of the commodity
  June 21, 2013 - Nasdaq
• Stocks Nosedive 2%, Dow Ends Down 350 on Fed Taper Talk; Vix Tops 20 for First Time in 2013
  Stocks took a sharp nosedive across the board Thursday, with the Dow posting its worst day of 2013, after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted the central bank may scale back its asset purchases ...
  June 20, 2013 - CNBC via Yahoo! Finance
• Daily ETF Roundup: Stocks Nosedive, VXX Spikes and XLP Tumbles
  U.S. equities took a steep nosedive today, marking their biggest one-day drop of the year. Investors’ anxiety of Fed tapering nearly reached a boiling point today after the Fed hinted yesterday that the ...
  June 20, 2013 - ETF Database via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Smush Parker in USA Today
  I'm frustrated how the ballclub is going in a nosedive,Parker said. "I'm not pleased with my play, and I'm not pleased with the team's play. I know I can play better than this."
• Imran Khan in AFP
  This attack was guaranteed front-page news everywhere in the world,Khan said. "The perpetrators wanted to portray Pakistan as a chaotic state in the Dark Ages. Yesterday, the stock market took a nosedive. Pakistan is a resilient country...
• Tiger Wood in ESPN
  I didn't have a very good lie, and I was marginal whether I should go for it or not,Woods said. "I was just trying to hit the ball somewhere to the left of the hole and it just squirted off to the right and fell in a little nosedive."