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• More borrowers are likely to hit the skids on their car loans this year.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
• This season the show hit a turning point — the finale airs Sunday on TLC — and the family hit the skids.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
• As good as things looked for New England through two-plus quarters, the Patriots have hit the skids.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
• The spinning machines shut down, moved offshore, and Blackburn hit the skids in the 1970s, a poster child for destitute Britain.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
• While the Jets are a defeat away from their first 0-9 start in franchise history, the post-Tom Brady era for the Patriots has hit the skids.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2020
• New York hit the skids financially in those years, and the city’s safety net, already badly frayed, gave out.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2021
• Lyle Anderson had developed the site with Jack Nicklaus but fell on hard times, and had to let the club with two 18-hole layouts go as the economy hit the skids.
  — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
• Adding to the gloom: A rare moment of bipartisanship in housing policy appears to have hit the skids.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• Perhaps not coincidentally, fiction hit the skids around the same time.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2020
• California stays the course Not all climate and energy proposals hit the skids with Tuesday's results.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2010
• As the Delta variant rampages across the country and after an Afghanistan pullout in which Biden appeared at times less than candid and willing to pass the buck, the President's popularity has begun to hit the skids.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 6 Sep. 2021
• Crypto hit the skids in May when Musk said the electric car company would stop accepting bitcoin as payment until it is produced using more sustainable sources of energy.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2021
• As negotiations for their first contract have hit the skids, postproduction workers at Saturday Night Live are preparing for a strike.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023

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