deep dive

[ deep dahyv ]

noun

, Informal.

1. a thorough or comprehensive analysis of a subject or issue: The article gives you a deep dive into the city's coolest summer activities.

   My boss wants me to do a deep dive on our main competitors.

   The article gives you a deep dive into the city's coolest summer activities.

Other Words From

• deep-dive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of deep dive¹

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

David Corn at Mother Jones did a deep dive into RFK Jr.'s twisted reality and reported that he once told Trumpy podcasters Joe Rogan and Theo Von that "a global elite led by the CIA had been planning for years to use a pandemic to end democracy and impose totalitarian control on the entire world."

From Salon

In an email exchange shown to BBC News last year, deep-sea specialist Rob McCallum told Rush that the sub should not be used for commercial deep dive operations and was placing passengers in a “dangerous dynamic”.

From BBC

In “Two Things,” she finds the ragged edge of her honeyed voice to put across the exasperation involved in a love-hate relationship; in “We Broke Up,” she realizes that closure is available only to those who are ready for it: “I could take a deep dive in the details / I could hide, I could cry till I throw up / Take a stroll, camera roll, old emails / But it’s as simple as, ‘We broke up.’”

From Los Angeles Times

On this week’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick asks Katherine Yon Ebright to help the rest of us catch up with her deep dive on this dangerous law, and to explain why we should take the threats to use it literally and seriously.

From Slate

The IFS’s deep dive on the claimant statistics reveals that claimants were younger and their claims increasingly focused on mental health.

From BBC