troughs
Example Sentences
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That lower high, coupled with the fresh low hit last week, extends the pattern of lower peaks and lower troughs that many chart watchers say defines a downtrend.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 14, 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
But its shape, though haunting, is also oddly inviting, bringing to mind stone troughs and thirsty animals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 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
