Example Sentences

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If the war is mercifully short and risk appetite troughs in March, as Hartnett and team expect, then the bid for what he refers to as the inflation boom beneficiaries should reassert itself.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 6, 2026

“The tips of the waves are called ridges and the bottoms of the waves are called troughs, and so the atmosphere flows just like water.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

Some rest over deep troughs or underwater mountains, while others lie across broad, flat plains.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026

Two dozen start-ups came to market in 2020-21, then cratered by three-quarters to troughs in 2023-24, Carter says.

From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025

During the fall and winter the salmon eggs, large and thick- shelled, lay in shallow gravel-filled troughs, or redds, which the mother fish had dug in the stream bottom.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson