How To Use Nadir In A Sentence
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By 1932, the depression had reached its nadir .
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My sense of well-being at its nadir.
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A cliché about the camps is that they represented a nadir of inhumanity.
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A forearm in the face and an ambulance took him to his career 's nadir.
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Once, the prince of misery's career reached such a dramatic nadir one scathing reviewer branded him a ‘boring old drone’.
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Higgins's megalomania reached its nadir one night when he flagged down a police car and demanded to be given a lift to his destination (a nightclub, obviously).
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Standing opposite your Midheaven is the Nadir, which represents that upon which you stand.
Astrology for Capricorns
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As noted in these articles, at the moment when interest in classics is at its nadir in the schools, it is all the rage in popular entertainment.
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The crowning nadir was when the professional photographers wrote to me to say that the particular film they used for my ‘official’ photos had been over-exposed and there were no photos.
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Changes in architectural style and building technology brought brownstone to its zenith and nadir in a very short period of time.
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ratings of continue to plunge, possibly because God is punishing the smug moderator of for his 2007 prancing around on stage at one of those incestuous Washington correspondents dinners while Karl Rove "rapped," a performance widely believed to be the nadir of Caucasian entertainment
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This, not his ethical problems, caused the steepest dive in his national popularity, to its current nadir.
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It reached a nadir soon after 5pm.
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He had in fact returned from the nadir of alcoholism and addiction.
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December 15th, 2009 at 5: 49 pm but there are pre-modern analogies to detroit. rome and constantinople were built to be huge cities, but collapsed to such an extent that vast expanses of officially “urban” zones were left fallow and had re-wilded. of course was only one part of the cycle, rome bounced back from its dark age nadir, and constantinople revived upon the rents received from the ottoman empire. urgs Says:
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We have passed the nadir in terms of activity.
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In 1933, in the nadir of the Great Depression, a young forester named Robert Marshall proposed a bold new socialist paradigm for managing the nation's timberlands.
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They were the nadir of British imperialism and we must accept Chinese anger as justifiable.
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Getting out of that situation was the absolute nadir of my barefaced lying career.
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‘Hardtack’, as the soldiers called this, represented the zenith of comestible durability and the nadir of taste.
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He used Nadira as a drug mule to bring drugs from a nearby Uzbek - Afghan border checkpoint.
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That the Metropolitan Museum accessioned no works by Sargent between 1941 and 1949 reflected the distractions of World War II and the fact that interest in late nineteenth-century cosmopolites like Sargent was at its nadir.
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Mr Nadir faced trial in September on charges of theft and false accounting.
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At its nadir in 1983, the Alameda colony had only 3 nesting pairs.
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I think our dual roles reached a nadir one morning when she watched me get out of the bath.
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The Aussie form touched the nadir against the lowly Indians who almost held them for a draw, which would have denied Australia a place in the final.
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So was it the worst, the low point, the nadir?
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Planets conjunct the nadir show powers and abilities.
Astrology for Capricorns
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Just when you think they've reached a nadir, they find another.
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Nadir should be put in the dock.
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The fact that, though they had been pared, no fewer than 13 charges still awaited Mr Nadir is discouraging.
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Then drawn perhaps by my gaze, she dropped her eyes upon me; golden, translucent, with tiny flecks of amber in their aureate irises, the soul that looked through them was as far removed from that flaming out of the priestess as zenith is above nadir.
The Moon Pool
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Whether taken as bad art, nonart or a crucial nadir in the career of an often brilliant mega-artist, painting is too strong a word for these inkjet monstrosities on canvas from 1990-91.
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The nadir of the papacy (the pornocracy): the landed aristocracy of Rome, under the leadership of the senator Theophylact, his wife, Theodora, and his daughter Marozia (mistress of Pope Sergius III and mother of Sergius's son John, later Pope John XI), dominated the curia.
F. The Papacy and Italy
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To our immediate point, the city is America's apogee, nadir and living museum, a repository of art and entertainment for all brows: high, medium, low and no.
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From the much popular dum aloo to rajmah, the ones to look out for are nadir yakkhn or lotus stems in yogurt gravy, tsok vangun which is deep-friend brinjal in tamarind flavoured gravy and haakh, a typical Kashmiri saag made in mustard oil.
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Getting out of that situation was the absolute nadir of my barefaced lying career.
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We reached a nadir in Christmas 1954, which we spent with no gas, electricity or running water in two converted railway wagons on the snow-covered cliffs of Hornsea, on the East Yorkshire coast.
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In November, the dollar fell to a record low against the euro, a 26-year nadir against the British pound and a level not seen in a century versus the Canadian dollar.
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In 1739, when Nadir Shah of Persia invaded India and captured Delhi, he got it from the Moghuls, and took with him to Persia.
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Malton's mourning will reach its emotional nadir this morning.
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The day the nadir of his perfidy is brought to light, he will effectively have put the lives of hundreds of thousands — maybe even millions of Americans and more worrisome to him — American Interests (“Cha-CHING!”) in exponentially greater jeopardy than before.
Look 'Pon The Devil's Brow...An Impossibility...
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This year, six students went that far until stumped by the words "chary," "nadir" and "yamen" in the next three rounds.
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There are an unusually high number of male pseudohermaphrodite births in the Gaza neighborhood of Jabalya, where Nadir and Ahmed live.
Bloodthirsty Liberal
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The nadir came when his brother, Perdiccas III, died in battle against Illyrian invaders, who occupied the north-western borderlands.
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Finally you reach the nadir: the flat-pack warehouse, where you struggle alone to get massive boxes off the shelves and stack them on a trolley that goes careening off if you so much as brush against it.
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Things reached a nadir when his management team (from whom he has subsequently split) sent him to hospital for a psychiatric assessment.
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Its transcendental aspirations -- still unconsciously based on the geocentric view of things, a zenithal paradise, a nadiral hell -- were as foreign to his own as if they had been the dreams of people on another planet.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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David Skrela, the international fly-half, failed to exert any authority over the match, his wretched evening reaching its nadir when he punted an easy penalty into touch-in-goal a few minutes from the end.
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The nadir was reached with the match still in the balance.
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And suddenly the fifty-cent tip previously bestowed upon the servitor seemed, to one unexpectedly fallen heir to the princely fortune then in P. Sybarite's pockets, the very nadir of beggarliness.
The Day of Days An Extravaganza
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If a planet culminates, sets or is on the nadir at the same time that a star occupies one of the sacred earth-generated angles, then that star walks with that planet.
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It's the absolute nadir of reality tv, and I am addicted.
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With hindsight, this was a life in hiding, which reached its nadir long after her husband died of a brain tumour.
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Turner relied on handouts from a rich friend, but when he injured a hamstring last August he reached the nadir.
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The film's nadir is an interview with ‘Ramtha,’ a 35,000-year-old spirit channeled by a woman named JZ Knight.
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The axis along the Midheaven - Nadir represents the shades of gray from that which is completely under your control (the Nadir) to those things that are not (the Midheaven).
Astrology for Capricorns
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My battered cod was at the nadir for this dish: the casing hard, the interior mush.
The Sun
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This failure was the nadir of her career.
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N.E. and S.W. extremities of the large and deep gulph of Anadir, into the bottom of which the river of that name empties itself, dividing as it passes the country of the Koriacs from that of the Tschutski.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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At the nadir of her career, she was given a great encouragement by his marrying her.
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You know you've reached a new nadir in cable news when a station invites actors who play investigators on telly to comment on the sniper's tactics.
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It reached a pathetic nadir in the quarter-finals of the 2003 World Cup in Melbourne, when South Africa played New Zealand.
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This night was historic in that there are certain moments in a critic's life when one sinks to a spectacular low, a new nadir.
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Our American democracy has reached a nadir and we are experiencing a constitutional crisis and threat to the rule of law this democracywas founded ondue to the gross incompetence, fraudand 'tyranny by the decider 'GWBush and his neo-con/big oil cabal ... we are on the precipice of watching our very democracy and republic as we know it crumble ..
Obama's Speech Accomplishes More Than It Appears
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This failure was the nadir of her career.
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This biographical detail is often imagined to be his nadir, but the truth is that he had passed that point.
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So unless Cisco is about to invest heavily in optical research and find a way to catch up to the Canons and Panasonics of the world, this seems like a purchase at the nadir of a product cycle rather than a value added long term proposition.
At $590M, Did Cisco Pay Too Much for Flip?
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They were the nadir of British imperialism and we must accept Chinese anger as justifiable.
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Nadir should be put in the dock.
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His nadir came in the shape of a double-bogey at the par - 5 seventh where he pranged one into the rough, another behind the green and, all the while, swished his club about in ill-disguised anger.
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It has been widely denounced as a dreadful, expensive mistake, the very nadir of reality television… all of which is true, but what's your point?
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That all of these levels were explicable within the work itself says volumes about the vitality of conceptualism in the 70s and 80s - it had not yet a reached a nadir of mannerist gestures.
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The situation reached its nadir in March after he hurt his shoulder moving luggage.
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Shadow fell upon shadow; darkening nadirs entwining like oily hands across walls and uncarpeted floors.
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The day the nadir of his perfidy is brought to light, he will effectively have put the lives of hundreds of thousands — maybe even millions of Americans and more worrisome to him — American Interests (“Cha-CHING!”) in exponentially greater jeopardy than before.
Look 'Pon The Devil's Brow...An Impossibility...
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The power of negative learning is that function of an individual being forced to change and learn by reaching a nadir of despair.
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At 60, however, having reached a nadir — he loses his job teaching fifth-grade history at a second-rate school and moves from his substantial place to a “rinky-dink starter apartment” — he gets a do-over.
Cover to Cover
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The force of contraction declines slightly as it advances, reaching a nadir at about the level where the muscle becomes smooth muscle.
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Nadir Shäh, exacted a chout or tribute from the empire, arising out of the revenues of the province of Bengal, which being withheld in con:
Sporting Sketches
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The Welsh are now something close to a rabble, reaching a nadir a week ago with a record 50-10 defeat against a disinterested England, who were firing on a cylinder and a half.
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With essential resources at a nadir, the Valparai plateau with its perennial streams obviously attracts elephant herds.
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This, not his ethical problems, caused the steepest dive in his national popularity, to its current nadir.
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In the 1970s, “ring-pull” crafts were at their apex (and their nadir – the rise and fall were equally swift).
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1945 to 1946 was the nadir of Truman's presidency.
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A misguided foray into middle-eastern politics, it may well be their lyrical nadir, their trademark synth-pop swamped in a hideous 80s production.
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But just as I had reached the nadir of my despair, I caught a glimpse of a picture up on my wall.
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The party had made little headway since the nadir of 2002.
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The performance in Atlanta, when the 304-strong squad won just one gold medal and 15 in total, was a nadir for British sport.
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They were the nadir of British imperialism and we must accept Chinese anger as justifiable.
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The defeat was the nadir of her career.
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That the Metropolitan Museum accessioned no works by Sargent between 1941 and 1949 reflected the distractions of World War II and the fact that interest in late nineteenth-century cosmopolites like Sargent was at its nadir.
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Its records tell of the murder of Cavagnari in recent times; of the tragedy of Elphinstone's command (1838-42); of Shah Nadir, the butcher of Delhi (1738-39); of Baber Khan, the founder of Mongolian rule in India (1520); of Timur, the assailer of the world (1398); of
Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute
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Laughed reading your comment about "improvisations"--I took piano for 11 years, but having lived for 8 years, sans piano, I've reached the playing nadir where the simplest Mozart piece sounds like weird atonal dissonance.
Fixing a Hole
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He insisted that an international nadir had been reached, and that performances must improve immediately.
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The nadir is sounded by the plumbeous productions of Shadwell,
A Memoir of Mrs. Behn
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Nadirpur's residence was half way along the avenue.
