straight line
Example Sentences
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Like any system that depends on compounding interest — earning a return on the interest in addition to the principal — your investments rarely move in a straight line.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
So a straight line from there to a Mortensen-like role with NFL Network?
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
The chart of the past few weeks traces a straight line upward, which means that many investors who wanted more exposure to the sector have already bought in.
From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026
Gaps or spoofing may create straight line segments across land.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
Yet, like the medieval scholars before him, Descartes believed that nothing truly moved in a straight line, for that would leave a vacuum behind it.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
