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[bot-uhm] / ˈbɒt əm /






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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

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

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

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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