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They are at the nadir of their 114-year football history.
The city experienced an economic nadir in the 1970s.
Core body temperature rises gradually from its nadir in the middle of the night during slow-wave sleep, the least active brain state.
At the winter solstice we acknowledge the sun at its nadir and we beseech its return.

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Examples of nadir

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However, tomato plants had highly elongated and complex canopies that could not be easily measured from either a nadir or horizontal orientation.
In the run up to the first presidential election under the new constitution in 1965, relations between farmers and the government reached their nadir.
The incidence then falls, reaching a nadir around 45 years, and then increases steadily with age.
Immediately after birth, pulmonary resistance lowers progressively, reaching its nadir at 3 months.
Each begins its trajectory headed in a conservative direction, and hits a conservative nadir near the end of the 1970s.
The decline reached its nadir with the cohort of 1911-16.
Of the three plants tested, pepper canopies were the easiest to image from the nadir position, and tomatoes were the most problematic.
We will soon examine the implications of this extraordinary binary as the nadir of a clinical gaze built upon a principle of exclusions.
The pharmacokinetic studies reveal, nonetheless, that supplementation with triiodothyronine results in serum levels which have a nadir at 24 hours.
The fireplace is pivotal to the design, under the butterfly roof's nadir and the switchback ramp landing.
However, with such an approach, nadir imaging of crop canopies is almost impossible.
The nadir, observed at 10 minutes, corresponded in time to the maximal increase in extravascular lung water.
They further demonstrated that, when the wounds were being closed, those parameters of peripheral tissue perfusion reached a nadir.
Perhaps this was all the result of the nadir of a depression that could be treated.
Since the last epidemic in 1991\\2, there has been no large epidemic and differences between the peaks and nadirs have been unclear.
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