curve
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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
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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
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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
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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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