parabolic

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Sandisk and Micron—key members of a small group of memory stocks whose parabolic gains have lifted shares near records—both fell more than 13%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

“When you see certain sectors go linear or even parabolic, that’s at best unpredictable, at worst extraordinarily dangerous,” said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026

Interlune has tested some of its equipment during parabolic flights, in which a plane flies in a big arc to simulate zero gravity.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026

The parabolic rise in chip stocks still has many recalling the surges, and eventual end, of the dot-com boom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

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