death spiral

noun

1. (in pair skating) a dramatic movement in which the man spins his partner around him in a gradually increasing radius while he spins in place, holding the extended arm of the woman, who revolves around him on one skate with the other leg stretched out and gradually lowers herself backward until she is just above the ice surface.

Example Sentences

India, which had merely got lucky the first time round, went into a death spiral.

From Time

This produces the transit version of a death spiral—a more arduous commute and fewer opportunities for the affected communities.

From MIT Technology Review

To prevent that death spiral, we should just let cities borrow and spend and borrow and spend until the crisis has past.

From Time

It sends us even deeper into the partisan death spiral we were already in.

From FiveThirtyEight

The 49ers are filled with relics of the last calamitous decade — a death spiral of dysfunction and double-digit losing seasons that sent the Washington franchise slumping into irrelevance.

From Washington Post

Without those subsidies, the worst-case scenario has Obamacare entering a fiscal death spiral.

From The Daily Beast

In 2008, it was looking at a death spiral: cut credit ratings, claims on the policies, and collateral calls.

From The Daily Beast

This is the big enchilada, and the culmination of the alleged death spiral.

From The Daily Beast

This is the notorious "death spiral" that Obamacare critics warned about from the start.

From The Daily Beast

One look at today's health exchange prices suggests that the death spiral is already beginning.

From The Daily Beast