trajectory
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He called the initial public offering a "turning point in the global storage industry landscape and the development trajectory of China's semiconductor sector".
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Who knows if less time in an airplane will make a difference, but a franchise that hasn’t won a postseason game since the 2018 season will look for anything to change that trajectory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The Blue Origin spacecraft will follow a planned trajectory into a designated "parking" orbit, where its systems can be checked.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Barra said she expects the trajectory to continue into 2027.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
It swung from a wire that was sixty-seven meters long; because its trajectory changed over time, he explained, it proved beyond all doubt that the earth rotated.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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In some ways, it’s a journey that mirrors the actors’ own trajectories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
“If you average everyone together, you see decline. But when you look at individual trajectories, you uncover a very different story. A meaningful percentage of the older participants that we studied got better.”
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
The career trajectories of French Open finalists Mirra Andreeva and Maja Chwalinska could not be more contrasting.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
“Gold performance is anticipated to remain primarily a function of yield trajectories, which may limit meaningful upside in the near term absent a clear downshift in rates,” DBS Group Research’s Sherilyn Chew says in commentary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
The US Army’s Jupiter-C missile had been tested successfully on several occasions, and the Americans were ahead of the Russians in terms of the systems that guided missiles on their trajectories into space.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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