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Everything else about it was bigger too, most astonishingly the bottom line revealed by the document.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
The bottom line: You don’t want to burn bridges at work.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Khalife sparked a nationwide manhunt when he absconded from HMP Wandsworth, where he was awaiting trial on spying charges, by tying himself to the bottom of a food delivery truck.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Three pitches into the bottom of the sixth, Sheehan grooved a fastball to Marsh, and he hit it out for a 5-3 lead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
First a movement at the bottom of the ravine -then there it was.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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“With valuations having almost doubled off the bottoms post Q1, and on-cycle names unlikely to show material inflections, we lean more cautious heading into the on-cycle prints,” the analysts write.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Carefully remove the ramekins and return the pastries to the oven just until the bottoms of the wells are firm enough to hold an egg.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
The setting sun illuminates the bottoms of those clouds and creates the beautiful sunsets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
It shows him coming down several flights of stairs, wearing tracksuit bottoms and no shoes or top.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
I dreamed that the monkeys caught Rowdy and me down in the bottoms.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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A handy defence, given that the song bottomed out at number 29 in the UK singles chart, but it's also an essential recalibration.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Big picture: The labor market bottomed out at the end of 2025, but companies aren’t rushing to create new jobs.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
The stock is down 13% this year but has rallied 41% since it bottomed after reporting fiscal 2025 fourth quarter earnings in late March.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Musselman didn’t exactly deliver on that investment during the 2024-25 season, as USC bottomed out during its first Big Ten men’s basketball slate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
The first case I passed contained objects with hidden compartments in which inmates had stashed things—a false- bottomed Coke can, a hollow-heeled shoe, and a hollow-handled hairbrush.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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He said it reminds him of 2008, when gold initially sold off with equities before bottoming in November 2008 — and it “hasn’t looked back since.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
Historically, downturns then extend to the broader economy, creating a recession, which eventually leads to equities and credit bottoming.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
China will also release its latest housing price index on Monday, with investors looking for any further signs of property prices bottoming out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
The bottoming in the software trade has come into view, they reckon, adding that all indications are that the first quarter saw rapid AI adoption across semis, software, infrastructure, and derivative areas across tech.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
“Everything’s fine, Mom,” I said, my stomach bottoming out: We were about to have a family argument right here in front of God and everybody.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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