linear
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Chloe described her grief as constant but ever-changing, moving between denial and acceptance rather than following a "linear" path.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
"Here we have two hominin species that are together. And human evolution is not linear, it's a bushy tree, there are life forms that go extinct."
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
Comcast’s Sky appears in a favorable position to negotiate given the linear TV part of ITV’s business is struggling and it won’t want to pay a big premium to buy it, he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
The old rules of getting rich assumed a linear life.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
By the end of the evening, Sturtevant had sketched the first linear genetic map of half a dozen genes along a Drosophila chromosome.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing linear
Expressions and Equations
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Algebra
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STAAR English I: Elements of Literature
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