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How to use the word TROUGH in a Sentence?

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I worry that we will remain in this pattern of peak and trough and peak and trough, and we can do better.

Van Kerkhove

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The recession itself won't last long, because the trough will be quick. But the scars, the lingering effect from this, will be long lasting.

Gregory Daco

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are reasonably confident we are going to see the trough in our fiscal third quarter, based on what we hear from our customers and what we see in the supply chain, the question is... whether there will be some sequential relief in the fourth quarter or not.

Chief Executive Joe Kaeser

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

There's nothing I can do about it. It's going to get worse every day, i feel frustrated with it. .... Sometimes I fall down. But that's the new normal. I just have to accept it. I had a long turn at the trough.

Linda Ronstadt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Right now we're seeing disparity in moves of the indexes. And that's due primarily to the flow of earnings announcements as they surprise to the upside and disappoint to the downside, if consensus is building that a trough is occurring.

Bucky Hellwig

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Zones like the one we investigated are not uncommon along rifts, so I expect that similar reservoirs may exist elsewhere in the Okinawa Trough as well as other sediment-covered continental back-arc basins around the world.

Takeshi Tsuji

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Through provocative acts like this, he helps unify the moderates and frontline in the movement, it's like a wave. Sometimes we're in a trough and sometimes on a crest, and we're rising again.

Steve Chiu

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Europeans will give up cars and coffee before their vacations. We’re talking about an acceleration outlook, which usually works well for stocks, especially those like Priceline that began the year with trough multiples. RBC Capital Markets analyst

Mark Mahaney

added by Authors
4 years ago

We think this is the trough, and we'll see acceleration throughout the year, part of the reason this market is stalling out is because we need a trade deal. I would expect a pop [ if there's a trade deal ]. I don't think that's fully priced in.

Alicia Levine

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A lot of people still remember what happened during the financial crisis. That made banks really out of favor and that is reflected in the really trough valuations.

Jian Shi Cortesi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We expect the second quarter to be the volume trough for the year.

Chief Executive Luc Jobin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Pretty much every year you get a fairly significant rally in emerging markets. It happened from the start of 2014, and from March 2015 ... The trough-to-peak rally in 2014 was 22.5 percent, and so far this year we have had about 22.5 percent.

Will Ballard

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Although oil prices have risen sharply from the trough, many investors are not yet convinced if things have improved that much and I suspect they judged now is a good time to sell, but I do believe that this year the global economy will prove better than last year.

Tatsushi Maeno

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There was an inland trough that brought hot, dry and windy conditions, creating these catastrophic fire conditions.

Darryl Vink

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're still expecting a fourth-quarter lift-off in the Fed funds rate and that's when you'll see the trough in gold or we could potentially see gold take another leg lower.

Victor Thianpiriya

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's profit-taking after a good run this week...after the July trough, risk appetite has improved broadly with Chinese stocks having stabilized and Greece having reached a deal with its creditors.

Fergal Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The market looks like it wants to test the March trough, which comes in just above 14,600, so that will be a fairly pivotal spot for the index.

Fergal Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Monetary policy is working its way through the economy, growth is picking up. And inflation expectations have recovered from their trough.

Mario Draghi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The trend in claims, solidly below the pre-recession trough, remains in line with our forecast for continued tightening in labor market slack ahead.

Derek Lindsey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In those (past) cases we experienced a rapid correction to the rig count going from peak to trough over a three-quarter period.

Jeff Miller

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Although we expect headline inflation( year-over-year) to trough below the zero bound in the next few months, this is more than reflected in TIPS valuations.

Dan Ivascyn

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is bringing forward the profit trough, bringing forward the pain of unstretching the accounts, while many people will focus on the initial profit guidance, we consider this a sensible decision to start early with the necessary reset of accounts.

Bernstein Research analyst Bruno Monteyne

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They chartered these vessels at the peak of the cycle and they're cancelling contracts at trough of the cycle. It's a double error, they're panicking ... They should leverage up to avoid cutting too much.

John Olaisen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.

William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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