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nadir

noun as in lowest point

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City Hall was at a nadir amid numerous criminal scandals and an explosive leaked recording of some City Council members frankly discussing politics in sometimes racist terms.

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One person’s humiliating nadir comes during a painful tracking shot at an outdoor party where they’re shunned like they have the plague.

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West Indies' decline is nothing new, but this feels like a particular nadir and already the post-mortem has begun.

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Would that the report marked the nadir of Kennedy’s work as secretary of Health and Human Services.

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Part of going forward necessitates making sense of how we as a country got to this nadir.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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