Definition of "nosediving" []

• Present participle of nosedive. (verb)

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• "Thus, with our slumping economy, the arts have been nosediving."
• "With all the hand-wringing about leaving our grandchildren a huge federal debt, where is the concern about leaving them a nosediving economy?"
• "But while Republican trust numbers have shot up above 60 percent on several occasions (under Reagan, after 9/11) and remained above 50 percent for much of the Reagan and Bush II years — not to mention nosediving to 11 percent under Clinton and 7 percent or so under Obama — Democratic stats climbed above 50 percent only once (9/11) and never fell below 15, even under the dreaded Dubya."