nadir

The nadir, arguably, was when they were forced to play matches away from Coventry, at Northampton Town, before later plummeting down to the fourth tier for the first time in 59 years in 2017.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

EV sales remain depressed, but Tesla’s market share has recovered from its 2025 nadir.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The nadir came in 2020 when “Schitt’s Creek” won every comedy category, becoming the first program in television history to pull off such a feat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

And even at its nadir, the drawdown at the index level was never all that severe: At its intraday low on June 9, the S&P 500 was down just 4.9% from its record high.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

Consider, too, the Dobynsesque procedure for recovering original population numbers: applying an assumed death rate, usually 95 percent, to the observed population nadir.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The year 1893 was one of two significant economic nadirs during the decade, the second coming in 1897.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

If at one point he said, “Kind of like I said last week,” that’s how it goes in nadirs.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2021

He alludes to companies that have rebounded from nadirs of public controversy stemming from unethical decisions, such at Tyco, which saw two of its executives plead guilty to stealing hundreds of millions of dollars.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 19, 2020

In fairness, the evening of Nov. 8 and the cratered-out dawn of Nov. 9 were more like a chain of nadirs strung together.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2017

Many of them, put together just after epidemics, would have represented population nadirs, not approximations of precontact numbers.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann