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curve

[kurv] / kɜrv /




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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

This World Cup has only been an upward curve.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

“MTIA progress should improve the cost curve over time, particularly for inference and core recommendation workloads,” Black wrote in a Thursday note.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

“The curve structure also strengthened, with the front end returning to backwardation after recently flipping into contango amid the ramp-up of Persian Gulf supply.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Its petals are long and curve toward the sun.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

These asymmetric assemblages, however, don’t feel precarious, but rather safely grounded, their rounded curves giving them a calming maternal presence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

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

Lanternwood has only one main street, High Street, which curves in a slow horseshoe, sandwiched by the river on one side and farmland on the other.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

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

One designer wanted to make two corners of the tile more curved, to guide consumers toward an easy pickup.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

Riemann’s Ph.D. adviser, the legendary Carl Friedrich Gauss, tasked him with revamping geometry to better handle curved spaces and more dimensions than three.

From Slate Jun. 22, 2026

The 360-degree curved glass walls encasing the galleries offered many glimpses of a face that belonged to me but somehow wasn’t mine.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

A Cobra is low and all curved and super-fat, like a chunky bug that’s pumped up like a balloon.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

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

Gehry Partners, the architecture firm established by the late Frank Gehry in 2001, released renderings of its redesign, which includes a curving glass canopy above a staircase leading to the Lower Tram entrance.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

Another side features a curving surface descending from the apex for winter sledding.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 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

“Oh,” the matron declared, the slightest hint of a gloating smile curving her thin lips, “you’re Margaret now?”

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older




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