nadir

The fast-and-furious dialogue hits its nadir when Madison’s Frances slips Jeff important documents that he can’t even read because she nonsensically starts chattering about the looming coronavirus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The nadir, arguably, was when they were forced to play matches away from Coventry, at Northampton Town, before later plummeting down to the fourth tier for the first time in 59 years in 2017.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

It reached its nadir in December 2004 when he and his cabinet were given a public dressing-down by China's then-president Hu Jintao for poor performance.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

The play’s nadir comes at the close of the first act, when Judith suddenly returns, looking as if she has just crawled out of the Potomac, as indeed she has.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Consider, too, the Dobynsesque procedure for recovering original population numbers: applying an assumed death rate, usually 95 percent, to the observed population nadir.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

They boo kickers during nadirs, but at least there aren’t too many booers.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2021

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

Many of them, put together just after epidemics, would have represented population nadirs, not approximations of precontact numbers.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann