parabolic

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The moves have been parabolic and, historically, they don’t get repaired by going sideways.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

The stock market was relatively calm in the weeks leading up to its late-October high, in contrast to the parabolic increase that you’d expect if tops were the opposite of bottoms.

From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025

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

Then usage, which everybody expected to increase as the price fell, went absolutely parabolic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 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