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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Her sedan, ill-equipped for the rugged terrain, bottomed out repeatedly, forcing Laird and Stirling to dig the car out with sticks and move rocks by hand.
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Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 20 July 2025
And at the time, that strained relationship had bottomed out so badly that Fleetwood Mac gave Buckingham his walking papers and recruited two guitarists – Neil Finn and Mike Campbell – to replace him on a massive world tour that ran from 2018-2019.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 17 July 2025
Then Green Bay bottomed out with Anders Carlson in 2023 and Brayden Narveson for six games in 2024.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
Temperatures will bottom out in the upper 60s before rebounding to around 90 degrees by the afternoon.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 11 July 2025
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Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 20 July 2025
And at the time, that strained relationship had bottomed out so badly that Fleetwood Mac gave Buckingham his walking papers and recruited two guitarists – Neil Finn and Mike Campbell – to replace him on a massive world tour that ran from 2018-2019.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 17 July 2025
Then Green Bay bottomed out with Anders Carlson in 2023 and Brayden Narveson for six games in 2024.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
Temperatures will bottom out in the upper 60s before rebounding to around 90 degrees by the afternoon.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 11 July 2025
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“Bottom out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bottom%20out. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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