S-shaped

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Already, we have S-shaped growth curves, L-shaped recessions, V- and U-shaped recoveries, and W-shaped whatevers.

From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025

Of the different configurations of four pixels the researchers tried -- square, or S-, J- or T-shaped -- they found through repeated experiments that the most precise results were provided by the S-shaped array.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024

The two men stayed together in the open, carving wide S-shaped turns.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2024

The natural law of growth in competition suggests this optimism is misguided: Mass shootings follow their own S-shaped natural-growth curve different from the one for all gun deaths shown earlier.

From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2023

The one Laika found was dried and flat, an old rattler that had become an S-shaped band of snake jerky.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith