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[bot-uhm] / ˈbɒt əm /






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The bottom line: If you’re planning to hand out candy this Halloween, you’ll be paying more — no matter how big your chocolate bars are.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

“Overall, we expect the strong set of results including the top and bottom line beat to be well received and expect the shares to outperform by at least 2-3%” on Friday, the bank says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

During their double drop descent, Wolves - who remarkably suffered a treble drop to the bottom tier in the 1980s - burned through four managers and made a series of poor transfers.

From BBC ● 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

I didn’t move and in that very short time she realized what I was, blew out of the water in a fountain of spray and bottom mud, and was gone.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

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

Tracksuit bottoms, jackets, hoodies and T-shirts sit untouched.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

“With valuations having almost doubled off the bottoms post Q1, and on-cycle names unlikely to show material inflections, we lean more cautious heading into the on-cycle prints,” the analysts write.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Right after breakfast I called Rowdy and we lit out for the bottoms to look for the Lee family’s milk supplier.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

This ratio bottomed out at the end of July but built up again in August and September.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

But the death cross before that had appeared on Sept. 9, 2024, and prices bottomed a week later after just another 1.8% decline.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 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

Hatted, bell- bottomed and Loved from the Beginning.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

They expected the dollar’s descent to continue into the second half of the year before bottoming near the end of the year, then turning higher in 2027.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 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

Since bottoming on April 10, MongoDB stock has advanced 44%.

From Barron's ● May 28, 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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