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Over time, material such as pollen, sand, plant remains, and organic matter settles at the bottom of a lake, building a layered record of past environmental conditions.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Last week, the government’s own energy statisticians published an explainer on the term, because, at one of America’s most important oil hubs, prices now suggest the tanks may already be scraping bottom.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
The decayed plant turns black and is caught in a sieve, allowing the seeds to fall to the bottom of the catching tub.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
But in the bottom of the fourth, he helped squash one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
I smiled and filed the journal in the bottom of my bag.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
“The general people, normal people, are actually getting off their bottoms and doing something.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
It is claimed he dumped tracksuit bottoms he had been wearing in a garden in St George's Cross.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
Rowdy and I walked up the river bank for about three hundred yards and then cut back through the bottoms.
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
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
The stock bottomed out and subsequently doubled after the loss was baked into predictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
The next clear level of buying support is at $46, where it bottomed during the April 2025 tariff scare.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
A painful screech of metal on cement raked our ears as the chassis bottomed out.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
Since bottoming at $23.36 on May 20, Peabody stock has rallied 33%.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
Historically, downturns then extend to the broader economy, creating a recession, which eventually leads to equities and credit bottoming.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
China will also release its latest housing price index on Monday, with investors looking for any further signs of property prices bottoming out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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
“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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