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Recent Examples of trajectories
After their own club careers took them on separate trajectories, the now 27-year-olds have been reunited with Minnesota United this season.
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Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2026
State policies must foster students’ civic development throughout their K-12 trajectories.
—Erin Carlson Mast, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
Perceptions about the country’s and states' trajectories cleaved along partisan lines for respondents in both Houston and Chicago.
—Maliya Ellis, Houston Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
The two finished with Blair on very different trajectories.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2026
The duo, young for their career trajectories, first met at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
—Jay Stahl, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
In the 1950s, women were trained to scan bubble chambers, which recorded particle trajectories as lines of tiny bubbles in fluid.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026
The failure to adapt will create an exodus of capable employees who simply do not fit outdated career (or life) trajectories.
—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
Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2026
State policies must foster students’ civic development throughout their K-12 trajectories.
—Erin Carlson Mast, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
Perceptions about the country’s and states' trajectories cleaved along partisan lines for respondents in both Houston and Chicago.
—Maliya Ellis, Houston Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
The two finished with Blair on very different trajectories.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2026
The duo, young for their career trajectories, first met at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
—Jay Stahl, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
In the 1950s, women were trained to scan bubble chambers, which recorded particle trajectories as lines of tiny bubbles in fluid.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026
The failure to adapt will create an exodus of capable employees who simply do not fit outdated career (or life) trajectories.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trajectories
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Since 1957, believers and non-believers alike have sought refuge at the 10-acre estate, with meandering woodland paths and rocky gardens nestled along a quiet, lake-like inlet of Long Island Sound.—
Hannah Towey,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Feb. 2026
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Trails meander past the butterfly garden, under a canopy of southern magnolias and hardwoods, and over a mix of boardwalks, dirt paths, and concrete walkways.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The serene reception area and library-like lounge lie up a flight of steps; all-day dining and drinks happen at the MO Bar, at street level below the lobby.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Feb. 2026
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All four companies have taken steps to improve safety, including by introducing parental controls tools, adding privacy settings for young users, increasing content restrictions and offering options to limit notifications or time spent scrolling.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
22 Feb. 2026
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The Sawtooth Mountains resort had six lifts open running across 39 open routes, with no plans to close them anytime soon.—
Hali Smith,
Idaho Statesman,
21 Feb. 2026
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Southwest Airlines is launching four new nonstop routes from Austin this fall as the carrier continues expanding its footprint at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.—
Alex Driggars,
Austin American Statesman,
21 Feb. 2026
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With no talking heads or traditional narrative arcs, often stretching more than three hours in length, Wiseman’s documentaries demanded, and rewarded, patience in the viewer.—
Andrew Lapin,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Feb. 2026
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The story arcs over 24 hours, punctuated by the tidal rhythms.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
15 Feb. 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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Lightning can follow conductive pathways, and these precautions reduce the risk of electrical surges.—
Bay Area Weather Report,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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On the other hand, the technology could be used positively to help poor countries leapfrog older development pathways.—
Hanna Ziady,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026
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The cuts are not uniform, with areas of the campus scaling back in different ways.—
Jaweed Kaleem,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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This can be done in different ways, such as retrofitting a facility to emit directly into a storage location or by building vacuumlike structures to suck up emissions.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Feb. 2026
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Meanwhile, all 17 of the album's tracks charted on the Billboard Hot 100, making Bad Bunny the first Latin artist in history to have over 100 entries on the chart.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
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During an inspired middle section, Reznor and Ross travelled back to the B-stage and were joined by tour opener DJ Boys Noize, who did live remixes of some of NIN’s more electronically minded tracks.—
William Earl,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Trajectories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trajectories. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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