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Williams lives with her sisters in the bottom unit of her three-family townhouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
The market does not ring a bell at the bottom.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
His body was found a day later at the bottom of the Fall Creek Gorge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Uribe took over for Gasser in the bottom of the sixth inning, and he walked the first two batters he faced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
I attempt to entertain Teddy with Magna-Tiles and Legos and picture books, but he just sits on the ground, his bottom lip quivering, barely talking or playing.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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But it is also about culture—hence “Winning Works,” which is intended to put fresher bottoms into seats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The indicator’s theoretical rationale is that households are late to jump on the market’s bandwagon, and are therefore most bullish at or near tops and most bearish at or near bottoms.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
It's "bottoms down" for the Daily Star, as it says Westminster City Council is "touting a 'no standing' plan" in pubs.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Carefully remove the ramekins and return the pastries to the oven just until the bottoms of the wells are firm enough to hold an egg.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Papa said, “It’s going to be a lot darker in the bottoms than it is out here in the fields. Do you think you can find that monkey tree?”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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“The company’s fundamentals haven’t yet bottomed out, and near-term catalysts are not apparent,” Deutsche Bank said ahead of the earnings release.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Berg highlighted Korean equities and semiconductor stocks in general, as having bottomed and showing upside potential.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
A handy defence, given that the song bottomed out at number 29 in the UK singles chart, but it's also an essential recalibration.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Musselman didn’t exactly deliver on that investment during the 2024-25 season, as USC bottomed out during its first Big Ten men’s basketball slate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
The first case I passed contained objects with hidden compartments in which inmates had stashed things—a false- bottomed Coke can, a hollow-heeled shoe, and a hollow-handled hairbrush.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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They expected the dollar’s descent to continue into the second half of the year before bottoming near the end of the year, then turning higher in 2027.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
After that appearance, prices fell another 6% before bottoming about a month later.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
It was dry too, he said, with relative humidity bottoming out at 12% that day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
“In wealth, we believe we have seen a bottoming of evergreen inflows in the May 1st close,” Lipshultz said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
“Everything’s fine, Mom,” I said, my stomach bottoming out: We were about to have a family argument right here in front of God and everybody.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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