arc
Example Sentences
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His dynamic with Elle Fanning’s American starlet is even more engaging: two strivers on opposite ends of their career arcs cheerfully negotiating how much they can help each other.
From Los Angeles Times
Her character arc implicitly concedes this when she outgrows some of her early ways in the third act.
Mining activity is concentrated in a vast southeastern territory known as the Orinoco arc.
From Barron's
The Butterfly moved it in a quick arc, and with a speed I wouldn’t have thought possible, that flickering speck of light leaped from that lighter to the wall of the ship’s passageway and ignited.
From Literature
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They are ready in a couple of months, and they almost always tie up the story arcs, she said.
From BBC
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