nadir
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The situation reached a nadir in a start against the San Diego Padres on July 2.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
In the year and a half since, women’s approval fell 29 points to its nadir at the beginning of July.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
Stocks are still likely rising on promises, with the S&P 500 up 14% from its late March nadir, and 6% higher on the year.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Channel 4's nadir was back in 2023 when its accounts showed a £52m deficit.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
His father wasn’t growing old: he had reached some kind of nadir ten or twelve years ago and now he was growing backward, aiming toward middle age, maybe youth.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
The year 1893 was one of two significant economic nadirs during the decade, the second coming in 1897.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
He alludes to companies that have rebounded from nadirs of public controversy stemming from unethical decisions, such at Tyco, which saw two of its executives plead guilty to stealing hundreds of millions of dollars.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 19, 2020
In fairness, the evening of Nov. 8 and the cratered-out dawn of Nov. 9 were more like a chain of nadirs strung together.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2017
Mental illness here is not merely the usual subdued grays and personal nadirs.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2016
Many of them, put together just after epidemics, would have represented population nadirs, not approximations of precontact numbers.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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