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[bot-uhm] / ˈbɒt əm /






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I also think — like even many Republicans do — that benefits need to be boosted at the bottom.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

But the 49ers are rested, just added DeForest Buckner and are a better team top to bottom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

If results go against them, Manchester United could be bottom of the table by the time they kick-off against Aston Villa on Sunday.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Rather than shadow every single agent, Sentra’s data security platform is designed to map out a company’s entire digital network from top to bottom to identify and classify sensitive data, Regev said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

“No, Aunt Corrie! You have to lick around the bottom of the scoop. Watch—like this!”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The researchers compared several groove shapes, including narrow channels with square profiles and longer channels with curved bottoms.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

There is no mirror opposite of the throwing in the towel that typically accompanies market bottoms — no obvious sign that the market is topping out.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

The school has decided to get rid of its branded blazer, the branded pinafore, branded shorts and PE jogging bottoms.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

“With valuations having almost doubled off the bottoms post Q1, and on-cycle names unlikely to show material inflections, we lean more cautious heading into the on-cycle prints,” the analysts write.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

We were in the bottoms about a hundred yards from the river, when I realized I was thirsty.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

The Covid-era, work-from-home device boom cooled, and flash prices bottomed out at 5 cents a gigabyte.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

But the death cross before that had appeared on Sept. 9, 2024, and prices bottomed a week later after just another 1.8% decline.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

“The company’s fundamentals haven’t yet bottomed out, and near-term catalysts are not apparent,” Deutsche Bank said ahead of the earnings release.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Using that method, gold should have peaked at $6,400 and bottomed at $3,700, he finds.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

It hadn’t bottomed out yet, but it was heading that way.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

By February 2009, with the global economy bottoming out in the wake of the financial crisis, beaten-down and low-rated cyclical stocks staged a massive rebound that left top-rated names behind.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

They expected the dollar’s descent to continue into the second half of the year before bottoming near the end of the year, then turning higher in 2027.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

It was dry too, he said, with relative humidity bottoming out at 12% that day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Shares in Nvidia have rallied more than 35% since bottoming out on March 30, reclaiming their status as the world’s most valuable company with a market cap of more than $5.5 trillion.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

“Everything’s fine, Mom,” I said, my stomach bottoming out: We were about to have a family argument right here in front of God and everybody.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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