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Arsenal started the day in the bottom half of the table, four points off fourth-placed Tottenham and 12 points behind leaders Manchester City.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Interim stabilization plans call for fill buttress at the bottom of the slope, the work necessitating closure of the southbound lanes on PCH between Reef Point and Irvine Cove drives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Along the self-portrait’s bottom edge, body becomes void.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
But having to hold your breath for long periods while battling with short sticks at the bottom of a pool builds a unique team spirit, Malaysian player Hui Chin Teoh told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
His chin was smooth as a baby’s bottom.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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The researchers compared several groove shapes, including narrow channels with square profiles and longer channels with curved bottoms.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Tracksuit bottoms, jackets, hoodies and T-shirts sit untouched.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The indicator’s theoretical rationale is that households are late to jump on the market’s bandwagon, and are therefore most bullish at or near tops and most bearish at or near bottoms.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
This is not an addiction drama of vicious rock bottoms and wild misbehavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
She already believed that the bottoms were full of things that could gobble me up.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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The bearish trend may have lost momentum, “but there is no compelling evidence that the metal has bottomed out yet,” Fawad Razaqzada of Forex.com says in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Chip stocks may not have bottomed, but it’s close.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
Stocks bottomed that March, down an astounding 56%, and began a relentless rally that was only upended, however briefly, by the Covid pandemic.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
At the top of the mountain, the road dropped precipitously and swung back and forth until it bottomed out into a long, narrow valley.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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Its value peaked near $200 billion in 2021, then collapsed along with vaccine sales, bottoming at about $10 billion last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
It was dry too, he said, with relative humidity bottoming out at 12% that day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
“In wealth, we believe we have seen a bottoming of evergreen inflows in the May 1st close,” Lipshultz said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
In addition, the appearance of dojis on May 14 and May 19 suggested selling pressure was beginning to fade and that a bottoming process was underway.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 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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