as in curved
to turn away from a straight line or course
the ball arced toward the batter and nearly hit him
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Recent Examples of arced
Both Maye and Vrabel both said Maye’s pass should have been arced more.
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Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
The rocket arced on a trajectory heading east from Florida's Space Coast, shed its reusable first stage booster for a landing offshore, then fired its upper stage engine twice to propel the trio of missions into deep space.
—Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
Kundananji tied it for Bay in the 68th with a smash from atop the box that arced up before falling into the side netting.
—Staff, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
The rocket arced on a trajectory heading east from Florida's Space Coast, shed its reusable first stage booster for a landing offshore, then fired its upper stage engine twice to propel the trio of missions into deep space.
—Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
Kundananji tied it for Bay in the 68th with a smash from atop the box that arced up before falling into the side netting.
—Staff, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arced
curved
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The difference in the zero-point energy of space between those two locations tells us, as first derived in Hawking’s 1974 paper, that radiation will be emitted from the region around the black hole, where space is curved the most strongly.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
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The angles of the rooms are all curved, and there’s a circular quality to the sets that gives the impression that nothing leads anywhere.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Arced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arced. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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