nadir

Example Sentences

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For investors hoping that this year’s stock-market pullback has already reached its nadir, BTIG’s Jonathan Krinsky has some bad news.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Borthwick's England are now facing their own nadir - the possibility of four defeats in the same Five or Six Nations for the first time since 1976, and the likelihood of matching Jones' fifth-place finish.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

“Labyrinth” landed during a creative nadir for Bowie, one he described to TV host Jonathan Ross in 2002 as “his Phil Collins years.”

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

Australian thermal-coal futures have risen back above $108/metric ton after hitting a nadir just under $94/ton in late April, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

His father wasn’t growing old: he had reached some kind of nadir ten or twelve years ago and now he was growing backward, aiming toward middle age, maybe youth.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols