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