bottom out
phrasal verb
bottomed out; bottoming out; bottoms out
: to reach a lowest or worst point usually before beginning to rise or improve
Real estate prices seem to have bottomed out, and sellers can expect to get higher prices in coming months.
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The rebel offensive was possible, in part, because of dynamics beyond Syria’s borders, including the dismantling of Hezbollah and the bottoming out of relations between Ankara and Damascus.
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Natasha Hall, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2024
The borough and its fortunes rise, fall, bottom out, begin to gentrify.
—Curbed Editors, Curbed, 29 Nov. 2024
The high that day will only reach 50 degrees, but the low will bottom out at 31 degrees.
—Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024
Nor have the Bruins, at 4-6, bottomed out without him, as first-year coordinator Ikaika Malloe has kept UCLA’s defense afloat just fine.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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Natasha Hall, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2024
The borough and its fortunes rise, fall, bottom out, begin to gentrify.
—Curbed Editors, Curbed, 29 Nov. 2024
The high that day will only reach 50 degrees, but the low will bottom out at 31 degrees.
—Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024
Nor have the Bruins, at 4-6, bottomed out without him, as first-year coordinator Ikaika Malloe has kept UCLA’s defense afloat just fine.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Bottom out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bottom%20out. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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