nadir
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The nadir came in 2020 when “Schitt’s Creek” won every comedy category, becoming the first program in television history to pull off such a feat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
And even at its nadir, the drawdown at the index level was never all that severe: At its intraday low on June 9, the S&P 500 was down just 4.9% from its record high.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
Agent Jones had lived through a lot in his years with the agency, but tonight marked the absolute nadir.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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
Here they’re having a nadir following upon previous nadirs.
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
Her shape-shifting vocals — deceptively optimistic overall, despite some dips into near-Gregorian moony nadirs — capture an easy intimacy and fitful mind.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 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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