nadir

Example Sentences

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For investors hoping that this year’s stock-market pullback has already reached its nadir, BTIG’s Jonathan Krinsky has some bad news.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Borthwick's England are now facing their own nadir - the possibility of four defeats in the same Five or Six Nations for the first time since 1976, and the likelihood of matching Jones' fifth-place finish.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

Turnout has ticked upward from its nadir in the 1990s, but around one in every three Americans never vote in presidential elections.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2026

While headline inflation could tick up from the nadir reached in October, household goods and services prices likely continued to decline due to GST rate cuts, they wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

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