bottoms

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Right now, the market appears “comfortable watching balances tighten gradually without aggressively repricing crude higher, because there remains a broad belief that the strait will reopen before true tank bottoms become visible,” Babin said.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

The runway to avoid reaching critical levels—known as tank bottoms in industry parlance—is vanishing rapidly.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Spake agrees, adding "managing it in the terminal before people have their bottoms on the plane is so much easier".

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

They often keep the underside of each slab as it is instead of flattening the bottoms.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

All around me the bottoms came to life with noises I had never heard before; grunts and squeals, barks and cries, and everything else.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls