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Recent Examples of trajectories
The failure to adapt will create an exodus of capable employees who simply do not fit outdated career (or life) trajectories.
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Dan Pontefract, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
At its heart sits a nested set of tracking systems designed to reconstruct thousands of particle trajectories per collision with millimeter precision.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
Medical experts look to previous flu trajectories to inform what the current outlook could be.
—William Tong, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
Advertisement These institutions don’t merely select talented students but directly change their life trajectories.
—Raj Chetty, Time, 28 Jan. 2026
Which leaves us to discuss the trajectories of Meta and Microsoft, which report on Wednesday, and Apple, which reports on Thursday.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026
Aside from telling workers to work hard, talk succinctly, and develop empathy, Dimon advised workers to remain open-minded, especially in an era in which career trajectories are swiftly changing.
—Jake Angelo, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
The Knicks’ and Nets’ futures are forever intertwined by the deal that altered the trajectories of both franchises.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2026
When these two celestial energies come together, themes surrounding our current commitments and trajectories become enlightened.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
Dan Pontefract, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
At its heart sits a nested set of tracking systems designed to reconstruct thousands of particle trajectories per collision with millimeter precision.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
Medical experts look to previous flu trajectories to inform what the current outlook could be.
—William Tong, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
Advertisement These institutions don’t merely select talented students but directly change their life trajectories.
—Raj Chetty, Time, 28 Jan. 2026
Which leaves us to discuss the trajectories of Meta and Microsoft, which report on Wednesday, and Apple, which reports on Thursday.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026
Aside from telling workers to work hard, talk succinctly, and develop empathy, Dimon advised workers to remain open-minded, especially in an era in which career trajectories are swiftly changing.
—Jake Angelo, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
The Knicks’ and Nets’ futures are forever intertwined by the deal that altered the trajectories of both franchises.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2026
When these two celestial energies come together, themes surrounding our current commitments and trajectories become enlightened.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trajectories
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This signature Aayush hydrothermal experience blends contrast pools, saunas, reflexology paths, and salt rooms into a restorative circuit.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
7 Jan. 2026
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Manhattan’s urban grid disappears among the winding paths and dense foliage of Central Park.—
Katie James Watkinson,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Jan. 2026
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Now, just two months after the Apopka community mourned the deaths of three teenagers on that dark stretch of Welch, Orange County is taking steps to make the road safer.—
Natalia Jaramillo,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Jan. 2026
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Hochul’s Executive Budget proposal takes meaningful steps to address these challenges by expanding the types of affordable housing projects that qualify for Type II actions and a more streamlined environmental review process.—
Carlina Rivera,
New York Daily News,
31 Jan. 2026
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Russia’s drones target the Ukrainian army’s supply routes and rear bases, often threatening to cut off units on the front lines.—
Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
1 Feb. 2026
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The Herald report found that most of the Proterra buses had broken down within a year of deployment and were pulled from routes as maintenance requests piled up.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2026
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Its twists are as shocking as those in a conventional thriller, and Cretton is a master of selling emotions and entire character arcs with a single shot.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Jan. 2026
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Tighter curves reveal lower momentum, whereas wider arcs show higher energy.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Jan. 2026
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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
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The plan represents a departure for Europe’s top satellite makers, which have traditionally focused on large, complex spacecraft in high orbits, but the industry has been disrupted by Starlink’s small, relatively cheap, low-orbit machines.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Receptors help regulate biological pathways involved in processes such as inflammation, metabolism and cell protection.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Researchers examined potential insider actions, such as leaving access hatches open or deliberately blocking cooling pathways.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Jan. 2026
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The shift toward burden-sharing is showing up in other ways.—
Ana Castelain,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026
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There were two ways to hunt for a colonial Spanish shipwreck in the Americas.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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These tests take place on public streets rather than private test tracks.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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But his score is far from being recycled Brat tracks.—
Matthew Huff,
Vanity Fair,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Trajectories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trajectories. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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