Thesaurus results for TRAJECTORIES

trajectories

noun

plural of trajectory

as in paths

the curved course along which something (such as a rocket) moves through the air or through space the trajectory of the missile

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Recent Examples of trajectories Thursday Night Football brings us two teams on very different trajectories. — Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026 The valuation trajectories of these companies indicate that investors do not anticipate such a turnaround. — Andrew McAfee, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026 Starship’s first 13 flights all flew suborbital trajectories by design, as SpaceX fine-tuned the launch vehicle’s design. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Literary lives, like the lives of plants, follow many trajectories. — Robert P. Baird, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2026 Following the rate hikes by both the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve, monetary policymakers across major global economies may need to reassess their policy trajectories. — CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026 Some life plans are only as good as their restructuring, and this is the kind of film that rejoices in the ways meeting someone sets our lives on completely new trajectories. — Zachary Lee, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2026 New York-founded ready-to-wear brands Aisling Camps, Heirlome, and 6397 are all at different points in their brand trajectories, and have taken varying approaches to presenting collections in the past. — Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2026 But their geopolitical trajectories couldn’t diverge much more from each other. — Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2026

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Rather, the issue is a combination of shadowing (physically blocking radar signal paths), clutter, multipath reflections, and moving turbine blades that makes the radar picture messy.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
Readiness is demonstrated when the team can use its actual tools, telemetry, playbooks and escalation paths to detect, investigate, contain and recover from an attack.

— David Etue, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of paths

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Most of those steps have been blocked by various courts, in part because the Constitution gives states and Congress the authority to set election rules, but provides no such power to the president.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
The fact that its AI agents have once again managed to break out of a sandbox suggests that the steps OpenAI has taken to improve security after the Hugging Face attack are insufficient.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of steps

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Ishmita Shah, a roads engineer, said crews have been working with Nepal's army since the second day after the floods to reopen routes in affected areas.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
That is important for industrial facilities, where inspection routes can cross multiple buildings, zones, and types of infrastructure.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of routes

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Nordrum didn’t quite rip out my heart the way Rickman did 31 years ago, but his watchful intensity gives him one of the most moving character arcs.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
Sending tentative arcs back and forth is a far easier endeavour.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of arcs

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The kick stage will be able to take big payloads from LEO to higher-energy orbits — for example, up to 8,800 pounds (4,000 kg) to geostationary orbit, a popular hangout for spy, communications and weather satellites that lies 22,236 miles (35,785 kilometers) above Earth.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 2 June 2026
Canadian and American researchers simulated satellite orbits in low Earth orbit and generated a metric, the CRASH Clock, that measures the number of days before collisions start happening if collision-avoidance maneuvers stop.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2026

Definition of orbits

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Within this region are two major neural pathways, known as the direct and indirect pathways, which appear to exert opposing influences over which actions are expressed.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
Now, his campaign priorities are to strengthen career and transfer pathways, expand student support and ensure colleges facilitate the classroom-to-career transition.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of pathways

Noun

Also, his team may advise that a specific nursing home or memory care facility would improve his quality of life in some ways.

— R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2026
New Paths, New Voices The path to becoming a filmmaker is evolving in disruptive and exciting ways.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of ways

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With all that said, there are still a lot of pleasures in this production that remain failsafe, even after the ride toward a way-too-inevitable outcome is firmly on its tracks.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026
Leigh feared the tracks might be too arch, too pretentious, too insincere.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026

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