parabolic

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"They need a satellite receiver equipped with a large parabolic antenna," said Beskrestnov.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

And one thing we’ve learned about commodity markets is that it doesn’t take much speculative money to make them go parabolic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

For proof, check out the parabolic growth of meme stocks, which have often benefited from the power of the retail trader.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Since then, the Nasdaq has climbed, the S&P 500 is near its highs, gold has gone parabolic — classic risk-on behavior.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 17, 2025

Nevertheless, his idealized parabolic trajectory in a vacuum was an essential precondition for the much more sophisticated analysis by Robins and Euler of actual trajectories.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton