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[bot-uhm] / ˈbɒt əm /






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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

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

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

“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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