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Recent Examples of trajectories
Older systems weren’t designed to handle the rich, unstructured or inferred data that agentic systems produce, like dynamic skills profiles or career trajectories.
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Abakar Saidov, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Once a writer can articulate some answers (and these answers will change over time, with life events, and with artistic failure or success), only then can the writer best determine the trajectories of stories, novels, essays, and of a literary career.
—Douglas Unger
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
The new study investigated the association between a polygenic score (PGS) and depression outcomes, including severity, trajectories of depression and antidepressant medication use.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Dreaming of a better life for his kids and niece, Maeve (Emilia Jones), Robbie’s pursuit of justice looks different than Tom’s, but the show pits their trajectories parallel to each other on a path to mutually assured destruction and, oddly, revelation.
—EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Bottas and Pérez have had similar trajectories in their F1 careers, excelling in midfield teams and attracting the attention of championship contenders.
—Sahil Kapur, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
Their long-term trajectories are better, too.
—Deanna Logan, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2025
But if traditional career trajectories run dry, what happens when companies run out of experts?
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2025
The researchers tracked the health of participants born between 1920 and 1922, comparing the disease trajectories of centenarians to those who did not live as long.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Abakar Saidov, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Once a writer can articulate some answers (and these answers will change over time, with life events, and with artistic failure or success), only then can the writer best determine the trajectories of stories, novels, essays, and of a literary career.
—Douglas Unger
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
The new study investigated the association between a polygenic score (PGS) and depression outcomes, including severity, trajectories of depression and antidepressant medication use.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Dreaming of a better life for his kids and niece, Maeve (Emilia Jones), Robbie’s pursuit of justice looks different than Tom’s, but the show pits their trajectories parallel to each other on a path to mutually assured destruction and, oddly, revelation.
—EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Bottas and Pérez have had similar trajectories in their F1 careers, excelling in midfield teams and attracting the attention of championship contenders.
—Sahil Kapur, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
Their long-term trajectories are better, too.
—Deanna Logan, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2025
But if traditional career trajectories run dry, what happens when companies run out of experts?
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2025
The researchers tracked the health of participants born between 1920 and 1922, comparing the disease trajectories of centenarians to those who did not live as long.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trajectories
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And with a textured rubber outsole that’s flexible, the sneakers hold up to a variety of surfaces, from paved sidewalks to dirt paths.—
Isabel Garcia,
People.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The town and the park are also full of opportunities for exploring, from mountain biking at Northwoods Trails to hiking park paths that wind around Hot Springs Mountain.—
Caroline Rogers,
Southern Living,
2 Sep. 2025
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Johnson took many steps to ensure this bill did not hit the floor, including language in a procedural vote to kill the petition.—
Lauren Green,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Sep. 2025
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The experienced pair of skydivers became entangled in steps on the edge of the plane before dangling frantically mid-air and, ultimately, falling to their deaths, the court heard, per The Guardian.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Buses are a major mode of transport in Mexico, where, though freight trains are common, passenger rail routes remain limited.—
Lizbeth Diaz,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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There were routes in which Brown broke inside, and a defender was awaiting.—
Zach Berman,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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That interaction produces glowing arcs and rays of green and red light.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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The first anime season aired from October 2020 to March 2021, followed by a second season covering the Hidden Inventory/Premature Death and Shibuya Incident arcs from July to December 2023.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
31 Aug. 2025
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The moon orbits alongside a number of small satellites that lie inside the orbit of Uranus' largest moons — Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Oberon and Titania (27 of Uranus' 29 moons are named after characters found in Shakespeare plays).—
Brett Tingley,
Space.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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One of the group’s core pushes with its campaign, beyond improved wages and access to a union health and pension plans, is to create structured career pathways for PAs.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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Expanding pathways to sustainable aviation fuel LanzaTech’s ethanol has already proven to be a strong feedstock for SAF production via the ATJ process.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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One of the charming aspects of following foreign football is realising that certain concepts are expressed in different ways to how it’s done in your own country.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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Naperville has also been testing ways to keep food out of landfills, drawing inspiration from an already existing plan with waste and recycling contractor Groot Industries.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
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The railroad’s willingness to pay the bill, including slimming down its own office payroll to free up more funds, appears to have limited the reputational damage enough for serious merger talks to proceed on down the tracks.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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In 1876, Texas A&M University was founded just down the tracks, shaping the area’s identity and giving rise to Bryan’s sister city, College Station.—
Jill Robbins,
Southern Living,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Trajectories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trajectories. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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