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For the first three weeks following its high that month, this index was relatively flat — and only thereafter did the bottom drop out in a big way.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
The bank’s quarterly profit declined, with integration charges linked to its recent acquisitions weighing on its bottom line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The company had already reported a strong rise in its bottom line in the preceding two quarters, similarly driven by soaring oil and gas prices as well as its trading activities.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
It's the battle of the bottom two... and I think Sunderland will win it.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The top line says ‘Hans Van d B, Ingrid Van d B’, the bottom ‘Markus’.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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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
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
Upson expects the species to slowly migrate further north or to valley bottoms, in search of water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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
I recognized those tracks from the many winters in Piatra Neamț where I had stumbled out onto the frozen pond with a neighbor friend, dull blades tied to the bottoms of our shoes.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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It just so happened that the death cross appeared on the same day that the selloff bottomed out.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
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
Gold eventually bottomed below $4,000 an ounce last month — a decline of about 30% from the January peak.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 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
It hadn’t bottomed out yet, but it was heading that way.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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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
Historically, downturns then extend to the broader economy, creating a recession, which eventually leads to equities and credit bottoming.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 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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