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trajectory

[truh-jek-tuh-ree] / trəˈdʒɛk tə ri /


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One of the things he likes about Bass is that her career has followed a long and varied public service trajectory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Use is up; valuation is up—will artificial intelligence’s trajectory keep up?

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

While the overall fourth-quarter projections were “light,” the AWS trajectory for the next two years is “a bright spot,” Jefferies trading-desk analyst Jeffrey Favuzza wrote in a note following the earnings report.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Shares in the Aperol maker lost ground after some of its brands performed weakly in the U.S., raising doubts over the group’s growth trajectory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

For the Americas, in particular, the 1492 snapshot captures the end of the independent trajectory of Native Americans.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The darkened fragments then complete their descent, with atmospheric winds potentially pushing them away from their original trajectories before they land as meteorites.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

Even within the highest echelons of wealth concentration, these two groups are on different trajectories.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

With pricing below Seedance 2.5 and video effects close to Seedance 2.5, Kling 4.0 could gain some market share and improve its grossing trajectories ahead, Citi adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

After several years of development and testing in Texas, SpaceX began flying the rocket in its full configuration in 2023, deliberately following suborbital trajectories, which are safer and less challenging.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

All these problems of the modern world result from the different historical trajectories implicit in Yali’s question.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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