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dive

[dahyv] / daΙͺv /




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In this list, our writers recommend the best episodes that you can dive into right away—without having to commit to the whole series.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

That’s why people sell their stocks in a panic during a market correction and/or go heavy in gold, dive headfirst into bonds and cash vehicles instead, only to regret it later.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Its peak dive reached 39 degrees; a standard descent is a 3-degree angle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Gloucester ruthlessly made their visitors pay once more as with their next attack Will Joseph's outstanding run and offload allowed Englefield to dive over.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Curling the toes of my right foot over the rough edge of the block, I assume my dive position.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Coming newsletters will take deeper dives into some of the more intriguing ballot measures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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

Over two days in July, his team did eight one-hour dives, exploring the undersides of rocky reefs to count the eggs.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

This story is part of Image’s August Adornment issue, which dives into loud, expressive and distinctive accessories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

He dives and surfaces, spraying water out of his mouth, rolls over and over in some bizarre corkscrew motion that makes me dizzy even to watch.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

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

New Zealand had ducked and dived to minimise the effect of South Africa's set-piece supremacy.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

But amid the crypto collapse in 2022, NFT sales volumes dived and never recovered as investors soured on the assets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Four ocean rescue swimmers jumped into the ocean and dived down to the submerged vehicle, where they were able to successfully extract the victim, who was later identified by her family as Alli Renee Singh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Chip dived out through the small space, barely missing landing in a holly bush.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

"Even the most committed dove would struggle to find anything in the August employment report to justify keeping interest rates unchanged," said Stephen Brown, chief North America economist at Capital Economics.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Annabeth dove for the chains holding the Doors of Death.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

"As children, we used to spend all our summers swimming at the beach, having fun by the water, diving, jumping in and sometimes even fishing," the 76-year-old told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Her mother had bright, clever eyes and a wide, funny smile; she looked happy-excited because it was the morning she went diving to investigate the contents of the blue whale’s stomach.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr


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