nadir
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Its financial picture has improved somewhat since that nadir, but Catalina Island Health remains one of several hospitals across Los Angeles County that are struggling to stay open in the face of strong financial headwinds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
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
The dollar recently traded at 17,800 rupiah Friday, compared with 18,190 rupiah at the nadir of the Indonesian currency’s weakness in early June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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
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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
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