nadir
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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
The nadir of this cycle arrived at the 2024 Copa America, hosted by the U.S., where the team crashed out following losses to Panama and Uruguay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The nadir came in September 2025, when the 160-year-old conglomerate hired its third CEO in just 13 months.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Jess Kerr ensured that batting nadir was avoided before she was snared by Issy Wong, but in truth it was England's spinners who appear key for what is to come later this summer.
From BBC ● May 25, 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
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
Mental illness here is not merely the usual subdued grays and personal nadirs.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2016
They played fast and loose with our capacity to watch rubbish by finding fresh nadirs to which to stoop.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2011
Many of them, put together just after epidemics, would have represented population nadirs, not approximations of precontact numbers.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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