swan dive

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swan dive
Noun
  • Lindelof offers clear communication from the middle of a back three but can be bullied when competing for headers.
    Carl Anka, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The header off a corner kick sent the 30,018 fans (including the dozen or so Padres in attendance) into a frenzy.
    Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The researchers found that instead of hopping with just their feet breaking the surface, as older studies had described anecdotally, the frogs were actually doing a series of belly flops—sinking for a fraction of a second and then kicking themselves upward with each jump.
    Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Buster the yellow Lab is a thicc fella who can stop, but will not stop, gleefully belly flopping into his swimming pool despite the increasingly helpless and desperately profane protestations of his mother.
    Julie Klausner, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • That could be in the range of the biggest drop in sales in the company’s history, nearly twice the drop during the early months of the pandemic, when factories and showrooms were closed due to stay-at-home orders.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The Chargers looked past Quentin Johnston’s 13 career drops at TCU and took him in the first round.
    Daniel Popper, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Workers were in the middle of cleaning up the site of an enormous chemical spill, the Bien Hoa air base, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio abruptly halted all foreign aid funding.
    Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The spill has taken place in a productive fishing area that supports the largest crustacean fishery in Europe, with about £15 million of live lobster landed annually.
    Lauren Lowman, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • If the date calls for something a little more elevated, Leonard likes a midi-length slip dress layered under a cropped cardigan or leather jacket with boots or heels, depending on the season.
    Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2025
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    Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 15 Mar. 2025
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“Swan dive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swan%20dive. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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