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curve

[kurv] / kɜrv /




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"The current fuel curve has dampened our expectations."

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Engineers said they were able to debunk some "myths", including that bullets can ricochet off the curve in the ballistic plate.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

The forward curve for TTF-the Netherlands-based benchmark that sets the price for much of Europe’s natural gas-has moved into backwardation, meaning shorter-dated contracts are more expensive than longer-dated ones.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

It’s not difficult to predict how Sonny’s arc will curve: It’s a Walter Mitty story, but also an Ugly Duckling story.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

The river eyes stared blindly up at him, nestled in the curve of the black stone tooth.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Later, sitting on an aluminum bench in one of her many-tiered patios, she flips between a blank page and another in which a serpent curves across a cerulean plane.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

In the same way a dismal class performance on a business school exam will still yield some A’s, curves also apply in the stock market when a company’s results aren’t necessarily jumping off the page.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

"I went to run with him high in the mountains. It was tough to follow him – he knew all the curves and the jumps, and it was not easy for me," Volpini recalls.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

A reopening of the Strait of Hormuz would likely lead to a steepening of sovereign curves, whereas a renewed escalation could trigger more flattening, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

The key to a black hole’s strange properties is the way it curves space-time.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

That tower is extraordinary, with its deep-set curved windows arrayed like a supple column of vertebrae.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

The theater, located on Sunset Boulevard, became known for its 86-foot-wide, curved screen.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Seren White, who worked on the design of the new curved armour, said the plates had "been tested with the highest level of rigor".

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

That left open the possibility that sprinklers with more complicated forms, including the curved and looping tubes found in silly sprinklers, might behave differently.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

The room has gigantic curved windows for walls.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Argentina went ahead two minutes into extra time on a strike from Lisandro Martinez, but Cape Verde equalized in the 103rd minute with a curving effort from Sidny Lopes Cabral.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

The Egyptian had been fouled on the edge of the area, making Qarabag pay when he took Dominik Szoboszlai's quick touch to send a curving left-foot free-kick past goalkeeper Mateusz Kochalski into the top corner.

From BBC Jan. 28, 2026

To Baier he said: “My prediction is that, first quarter, second quarter, what we are going to see, we have brought this inflation down, it is curving down.”

From MarketWatch Nov. 19, 2025

And the long curving roads lined with townhouses.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

He barely had time to register what looked like a brown carpet, stretched out over the curving surface below.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz




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