parabola
Example Sentences
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I don’t understand why it makes the curve it does, when it should make a parabola.
From New York Times
When the command "feet down" was yelled - signalling the end of the parabola - "many of us in the blind and low vision crew were able to find our mats," he says.
From BBC
Each time we did a parabola, I got a little bit better, more adventurous, my endeavors only sometimes thwarted by running into others.
From Washington Post
In a math class, a teacher used the arc of a Stephen Curry 3-pointer to explain a parabola.
From New York Times
When she booked a Las Vegas residency at 46, yet avoided a downward slope on the fame parabola?
From New York Times
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