as in breakdown
a mental or nervous collapse
the pressures of his job nearly caused him to go into a tailspin
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Key Background Trump announced a new slate of tariffs against all U.S. trading partners on April 2, sending stock markets in the U.S. and abroad into a tailspin, fueling recession fears and prompting some of his allies in the business community to speak out against the policy.
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Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Bobby’s death is going to send every other character on this show into an emotional tailspin, and who knows what could emerge from that?
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
The new trade measures sent markets into a tailspin, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq recording their biggest two-day drop since March 2020.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2025
But when the dot-com bubble burst and the 9/11 attacks sent markets into a tailspin, her real estate business collapsed.
—Achy Obejas Aaron Wojack, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
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Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Bobby’s death is going to send every other character on this show into an emotional tailspin, and who knows what could emerge from that?
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
The new trade measures sent markets into a tailspin, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq recording their biggest two-day drop since March 2020.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2025
But when the dot-com bubble burst and the 9/11 attacks sent markets into a tailspin, her real estate business collapsed.
—Achy Obejas Aaron Wojack, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tailspin
breakdown
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Here's a breakdown and a look at which can still win all four of them The Athletic’s Chelsea correspondents, Simon Johnson and Liam Twomey, had one of their cosy chats to talk about some of the issues surrounding the final.—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
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The failure to adequately cover Biden’s decline points to a broader breakdown that has a simple explanation.—
Becket Adams,
National Review,
25 May 2025
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“Tailspin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tailspin. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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