nadir

Disney Animation, after its string of 1990s hits like Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, was in the midst of a creative nadir.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

In the year and a half since, women’s approval fell 29 points to its nadir at the beginning of July.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

Still, it’s true that when the series was at its nadir, so few vibrant horror films were being made that it was stuck lampooning the now-forgotten Jessica Chastain chiller “Mama.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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

It required endless hours of searching for the nadirs of human experience.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 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

Her shape-shifting vocals — deceptively optimistic overall, despite some dips into near-Gregorian moony nadirs — capture an easy intimacy and fitful mind.

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2016

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

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann