How to Use hyperbola in a Sentence
hyperbola
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The graphs of such curves are the conic sections — circles, parabolas, ellipses and hyperbolas.
—Quanta Magazine, 2013-07-09
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Clouds are never spheres, nor mountains cones, nor Ponderosa pines;
bark is not smooth; and where the land and sea
so variously lie about each other
and lightly kiss, is no hyperbola.
—Evelyn Lamb, Smithsonian, 2018-04-24
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The class doesn’t cover some lessons on circles, hyperbolas, and ellipses, but those topics are more relevant to precalculus, Gurule said.
—Shaina Cavazos, The Atlantic, 2018-02-09
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