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I’m charmed by LeBron James’s nascent golf career: How someone at the top of one athletic profession has decided to start at the grim bottom of another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The iShares 20+ Years Treasury Bond ETF has earned a reputation lately for how reliably it can burn investors trying to call the bottom in long-dated U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Lightly coat the bottom of a skillet with olive oil and set it over medium heat.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
In the bottom half of the inning, the Dodgers recorded their first extra-base hit off Brewers starter Robert Gasser.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
From the bottom of the suitcase, Liz lifted a folded cloth with some very amateur-looking needlework on it— uneven stitches, mismatched colors, loose threads, snarls.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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It's "bottoms down" for the Daily Star, as it says Westminster City Council is "touting a 'no standing' plan" in pubs.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Return the pastries to the oven for 3 to 5 minutes, until the bottoms of the wells feel firm and no longer look raw.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
The setting sun illuminates the bottoms of those clouds and creates the beautiful sunsets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Jeans remain the core of Levi’s business, and skinny, slim, bootcut and straight fits still make up the bulk of its bottoms segment.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
“It couldn’t have been very hard. You weren’t down in the bottoms long.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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A handy defence, given that the song bottomed out at number 29 in the UK singles chart, but it's also an essential recalibration.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Big picture: The labor market bottomed out at the end of 2025, but companies aren’t rushing to create new jobs.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Musselman didn’t exactly deliver on that investment during the 2024-25 season, as USC bottomed out during its first Big Ten men’s basketball slate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
But these are just the latest moves in a sustained rise in yields that has been under way since long-term interest rates bottomed at historic lows in 2020, during the worst of the Covid pandemic.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Jack slipped into a low gear and we trundled slowly through them, coming out at a short straight stretch that bottomed out into a wide inside curve, a rocky cliff looming over it.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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“As this correction matures, the transfer of supply from long-term holders to newer hands at discounted prices remains a necessary part of the bottoming process,” says the firm in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
But they still haven’t made much progress since bottoming in February.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
“All of this is why we’ve been expecting any bottoming process to take time and be super volatile.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026
“We acknowledge the reactive appearance of this call, but what we interpreted as a bottoming process, akin to prior cycles last year, appears less so now,” Zener wrote in a note to clients.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 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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