bottom
noun
the lowest or deepest part of anything, as distinguished from the top.
was bottoming
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past progressiveof bottom.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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However, there were now signs that trend was "bottoming out" he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024
Surveys have also shown consumer confidence, manufacturing and services industries stabilizing, albeit at low levels in May, indicating that the downturn triggered by a near shutdown of the country was bottoming.
From Reuters ● Jun. 5, 2020
And indeed, a powerful drought hit the southern U.S. between 2010 and 2013, just as the Mexican monarch population was bottoming out.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 2, 2020
It was the spring of 2009, and the market was bottoming out.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 8, 2019
Now, I had planned on amassing all sorts of telling statistics about how often these late-season road trips damaged the arena’s tenants; how the Big Top was bottoming out both the Caps and the Wizards.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2017
