How to Use rock-bottom in a Sentence
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Pulitzer said the rock-bottom price for Mar-a-Lago would be $300 million.
—Terry Spencer, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
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The bank had to invest a mountain of customer cash at a time of rock-bottom interest rates.
—Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
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More than a decade of rock-bottom interest rates has been a boon for tech companies.
—Anna Cooban, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
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Build-quality is often a bit lacking, but the price is rock-bottom.
—Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 10 May 2023
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As interest rates hit rock-bottom in the years that followed the crisis, many savers and investors turned to non-banks in search of higher returns.
—Anna Cooban, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
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Yet many rational people did so, urged on by years of rock-bottom interest rates.
—Barton Swaim, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
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Morningstar analysts give this ETF a gold rating because of rock-bottom fees and long-term steady returns.
—Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
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During the pandemic, rock-bottom interest rates and a desire for more space drove a rapid and stunning rise in housing prices.
—The Editors, National Review, 25 Mar. 2024
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That won’t make the hangover from rock-bottom interest rates any easier for some music stocks.
—Carol Ryan, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2023
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In an economy with sustained vigor, the rock-bottom interest rates that prevailed during the 2010s might prove too low.
—Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
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The problem is that some landlords secured mortgages on buy-to-let schemes at rock-bottom interest rates—but that pattern has since reversed.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 6 Dec. 2023
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According to Manziel, rock-bottom began when Cleveland released him in March 2016.
—Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
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Now Amtrak has extended those same rock-bottom overnight prices to the upper half of the Northeast Corridor, with even more departure times.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2023
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The two sides are clashing over how to divide carriers’ pandemic-era profits in a market that’s returned to rock-bottom freight rates.
—Laura Curtis, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
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Her reminder to other people going through a rock-bottom scenario?
—Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
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This time, tough loan underwriting standards are the norm even with rock-bottom interest rates, experts say.
—USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
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Part of that mission is a promise not to take advantage of anyone who doesn’t understand the true value of their home, even as franchisees pursue rock-bottom prices.
—Propublica, Dallas News, 11 May 2023
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Increasingly, homeowners chose not to sell and give up their rock-bottom mortgages.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
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While more homes typically hit the market in the spring, many homeowners that have locked in a mortgage rate well below where rates are today may opt to stay put rather than give up their rock-bottom rates.
—Alex Veiga, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024
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Blessed with rich deposits of rare earths, the country cornered the market by mining the metals more cheaply (mainly by paying workers low wages) and selling them at rock-bottom prices.
—Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
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Another kind of investor prefers the slower, steadier race of diversified holdings and rock-bottom fees over a long-term time horizon.
—Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 7 Nov. 2023
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Temu quickly captured a global customer-base thanks to its rock-bottom prices and gamified elements.
—TIME, 16 Jan. 2024
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There’s no love lost for the gig economy as a whole, which seems to exist solely to humiliate folks already below a rock-bottom financial status.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
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The company could demand rock-bottom prices, aided by the implicit threat that if one factory balked, another could be summoned from inside the same waiting room.
—Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
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That’s true in this Midwestern manufacturing town overflowing with well-paying jobs, rock-bottom unemployment and some of the lowest gas, food and housing prices in the nation.
—Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
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Currently the valuation is so rock-bottom—below seven times earnings, well below historic norms—that downside has already been well-baked into the share price.
—Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 17 Dec. 2023
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But for Pinto, superior affordability plus rock-bottom listings give the Midwest the edge.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
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But prices started rising again this year as homeowners increasingly chose not to sell, unwilling to give up their rock-bottom mortgage rates on loans taken out before or during the pandemic.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
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As Chinese consumers became thriftier in 2023 in the face of economic uncertainty, its formula of rock-bottom prices and frequent coupons and rewards caught fire with middle-class Chinese shoppers.
—Drew Bernstein, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
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Something this extraordinarily comprehensive doesn’t come at a cost that’s accessible to someone who really just wants the basic hits — the rock-bottom sale price is around $400.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Aug. 2023
- After years of heavy drug use, she has finally reached rock bottom.
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The Oscars are at rock bottom in the eyes of the public.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 26 Nov. 2021
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The feelings went from the highest of highs to rock bottom.
—Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2021
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In 2018, Rashad moved back to L.A. and nearly hit rock bottom.
—Cydney Lee, Vulture, 30 July 2021
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As for stocks, there are some signs that the market may have hit rock bottom.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
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On that grave night in Green Bay, the Bears hit rock bottom and passed the point of no return on their way there.
—Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2020
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Turns out the Longhorns were still drilling towards rock bottom.
—Nathan Baird, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2021
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Time will tell, but the Seminoles may not have even hit rock bottom yet.
—Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2021
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But by this March, the 29-year-old man from Rhode Island had hit rock bottom.
—NBC News, 15 May 2021
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But there were many challenges that led them to hit rock bottom.
—Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2024
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And Drew got the job when Baylor appeared to hit rock bottom.
—Laine Higgins, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2021
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But there's nowhere else to go from rock bottom except up.
—Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
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By in his senior season, the Tide hit rock bottom at 0-10.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 3 May 2021
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And that’s not only since the rock bottom of the pandemic, but even from the years before most of us owned a mask.
—Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 3 Aug. 2022
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After nearly a decade of false starts, the club hit rock bottom last week with a 4-0 loss at the hands of Brentford.
—Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
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But selling off assets when prices are at—or near—rock bottom is rarely the right move.
—Mia Taylor, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
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Each one goes through tremendous hardships to the point of hitting rock bottom.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2020
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Most of the homes that hit rock bottom when the real estate bubble burst in 2008 were back to their pre-crash prices in less than a decade.
—David Wieland, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
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In what has already been a trying year for Michigan's offense, the unit hit rock bottom in the first half.
—Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2020
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Only three of the current Suns players were here when the franchise was at rock bottom.
—Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2021
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In the middle of the pitch-black woods of Zephyrhills on a summer night in 2018, Laura Henderson hit rock bottom.
—Natalia Jaramillo, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Feb. 2022
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Through that season, there was a point in that season where Butler was 14-9 and had lost at Youngstown State and kind of hit rock bottom.
—Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2022
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Just a rock bottom moment on a day James Burnip continued to punt well.
—Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 2 Oct. 2022
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Alcoholism led to spousal abuse and the proverbial descent to rock bottom.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 11 May 2022
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The Reds must hope this season represents a rock bottom.
—Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2022
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This was rock bottom in a season that keeps inventing new lows.
—Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Dec. 2022
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For a decade, rock bottom mortgage rates helped home buyers steadily bid up the cost of housing.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022
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Poor little Tess, who is hiding the backseat of Kevin’s car, has to watch her uncle hit rock bottom.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 May 2021
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As his helicopter floated into the sky, Nixon seemed to be fleeing a United States that had hit rock bottom.
—John A. Lawrence, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
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Viral TikTok creator Becca Moore found an unlikely friend at rock bottom.
—Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
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