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trajectory

[truh-jek-tuh-ree] / trəˈdʒɛk tə ri /


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He called the initial public offering a "turning point in the global storage industry landscape and the development trajectory of China's semiconductor sector".

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Who knows if less time in an airplane will make a difference, but a franchise that hasn’t won a postseason game since the 2018 season will look for anything to change that trajectory.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

The Blue Origin spacecraft will follow a planned trajectory into a designated "parking" orbit, where its systems can be checked.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

Barra said she expects the trajectory to continue into 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

It swung from a wire that was sixty-seven meters long; because its trajectory changed over time, he explained, it proved beyond all doubt that the earth rotated.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

In some ways, it’s a journey that mirrors the actors’ own trajectories.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

“If you average everyone together, you see decline. But when you look at individual trajectories, you uncover a very different story. A meaningful percentage of the older participants that we studied got better.”

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

The career trajectories of French Open finalists Mirra Andreeva and Maja Chwalinska could not be more contrasting.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

“Gold performance is anticipated to remain primarily a function of yield trajectories, which may limit meaningful upside in the near term absent a clear downshift in rates,” DBS Group Research’s Sherilyn Chew says in commentary.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

The US Army’s Jupiter-C missile had been tested successfully on several occasions, and the Americans were ahead of the Russians in terms of the systems that guided missiles on their trajectories into space.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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