trough
Example Sentences
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Weak end-markets for chemicals and a prolonged earnings trough for the company add further context to the planned layoffs, Jefferies says.
The court heard that a section of the road before the crash site has a series of peaks and troughs with a warning sign in place to alert drivers.
From BBC
"Traditionally in adoption we've seen peaks and troughs, but I don't think we've ever seen the cost of living quite as it is at the moment," she said.
From BBC
The chemicals market is currently in a trough, but oil companies have often tried to time investments to benefit from market recoveries.
The resulting 1978 masterpiece—sublimely detailed and marvelously strange in its presentation of unseen ridges, troughs and endless plains—reflected the newly established theories of plate tectonics and continental drift.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
