: tipped or slanted out of the vertical—used especially of a cattle brand
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The grayish-blue bird flew toward the sun, then plummeted 60 feet with a spectacular tumbling motion. Dyan Machan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022 More recent expansion plans were sidelined by a 2018 short-seller report that sent the company’s stock tumbling. Liz Young, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022 Higher rates have already sent home sales tumbling, made the prospect of buying a new car more burdensome and pushed credit card rates up.CBS News, 4 Aug. 2022 Higher rates have already sent home sales tumbling, made the prospect of buying a new car more burdensome and pushed credit card rates up. Matt Ott, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022 Those higher rates have already sent home sales tumbling, made the prospect of buying a new car more burdensome, and pushed credit card rates up. Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022 Higher mortgage rates have sent home sales tumbling. Christopher Rugaber, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022 Higher mortgage rates have sent home sales tumbling. Christopher Rugaber, ajc, 27 July 2022 The greenback’s climb has sent the euro, British pound and Japanese yen tumbling. Will Feuer, WSJ, 2 June 2022
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The Senate majority leader represents the big-business wing of the Republican Party, and Wall Street, if the tumbling stock market is any indication, fears Trump’s protectionism will cause economic pain. Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2018 The rout in bitcoin is part of a broader selloff in the cryptocurrency realm, with all of the top 10 by market cap falling, and most tumbling by at least 10 percent, according to Coinmarketcap.com. Joanna Ossinger, Bloomberg.com, 8 Jan. 2018 See More