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 company’s third-quarter results , reported in mid-November, hinted that its business is bottoming out and poised to inflect positively next year. —

Paulina Likos, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2024 From the late 1960s to the first years of the 21st century, population growth hovered around 1 percent yearly before starting to decline around 2008 and bottoming out in 2021, according to World Bank data. —

Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2024 The commercial real estate markets in New York and other big cities have rebounded since bottoming out during the pandemic. —

Rohit Arora, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024 The developer is searching for an anchor tenant for the planned office. CEO Michael Fallon says the market has bottomed out and will now start to come back up. —

Alexandria Sands, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bottom out