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Recent Examples of trajectories
These disruptions often compel professionals to reassess their career trajectories.
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Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
Given the disease’s wide range of trajectories and manifestations—from mild and manageable to severely disabling—some now regard it as a group of diseases, rather than a single one.
—Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
But coaxing nematodes is tricky and time-consuming, so Ortega-Jiménez collaborated with Ranjiangshang Ran, a postdoc studying fluid mechanics at Emory University, who ran computer simulations of thousands more jump trajectories.
—Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
Experts, developers, and CEOs of AI companies make bold claims about future trajectories, from the elimination of arduous labor and the increase in human longevity to the potential existential threats to humanity.
—Yoshua Bengio, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
Three Golden Bell Awards Best Actress contenders – Ning Chang, Alice Ko and Allison Lin – will appear together for the first time to discuss career trajectories and roles for women both in front of and behind the camera.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
The teams are also on vastly different trajectories.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
Moscow has also touted a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) capability, enabling warheads to be placed on low-Earth orbital trajectories toward their targets, a profile that complicates early detection and interception.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
While the slower speed and emphasis on physics, from the long-distance drop of bullet trajectories to the breakable foundations of structures, are a huge part of Battlefield’s DNA, there’s also just an inherent silliness to some of the tactics that stir joy.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
Given the disease’s wide range of trajectories and manifestations—from mild and manageable to severely disabling—some now regard it as a group of diseases, rather than a single one.
—Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
But coaxing nematodes is tricky and time-consuming, so Ortega-Jiménez collaborated with Ranjiangshang Ran, a postdoc studying fluid mechanics at Emory University, who ran computer simulations of thousands more jump trajectories.
—Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
Experts, developers, and CEOs of AI companies make bold claims about future trajectories, from the elimination of arduous labor and the increase in human longevity to the potential existential threats to humanity.
—Yoshua Bengio, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
Three Golden Bell Awards Best Actress contenders – Ning Chang, Alice Ko and Allison Lin – will appear together for the first time to discuss career trajectories and roles for women both in front of and behind the camera.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
The teams are also on vastly different trajectories.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
Moscow has also touted a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) capability, enabling warheads to be placed on low-Earth orbital trajectories toward their targets, a profile that complicates early detection and interception.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
While the slower speed and emphasis on physics, from the long-distance drop of bullet trajectories to the breakable foundations of structures, are a huge part of Battlefield’s DNA, there’s also just an inherent silliness to some of the tactics that stir joy.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trajectories
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The couple crossed paths in 2015 and married five years later.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Here, sculptures, interactive exhibits, and winding paths encourage exploration at every turn.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Oct. 2025
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Ahmad cautiously approached the home, climbed up the porch steps, and jiggled the front window.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Greece has taken steps to address the issue, such as introducing a new tax on cruise ship visitors to Santorini and Mykonos earlier this year.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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New York is a crossroads for them at the edge of the continent, like a traffic circle with east-west routes running along the ocean or north-south routes going up the harbor or to New Jersey.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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Offensive coordinator Joe Brady and Allen had to hocus pocus their way through the receiver deficiencies with screens and other short-distance routes, but James Cook, the tight ends and offensive line delivered ample force.—
The Athletic NFL Staff,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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Miškinis and writer Eglė Vertelytė (who adapts Rimantas Kmita’s semi-autobiographical novel) masterfully dodge genre tropes, avoiding confining their characters to simplistic labels and keeping the focus of their arcs self-motivated.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
30 Oct. 2025
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Earth’s magnetic field radiates from our planet’s poles, arcs deep into space, and creates a vast, magnetic bubble, known as the magnetosphere, that protects us from the solar wind.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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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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If a planet orbits close to its star in an elliptical orbit, then its interior will stretch and squeeze as the gravitational strength of the star changes.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Louisville officials are proposing a redesign of both roads, which could include new on-street parking spaces, turn lanes and pathways for pedestrians and cyclists.—
Leo Bertucci,
Louisville Courier Journal,
30 Oct. 2025
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These trials have demonstrated feasible pathways toward lower-carbon operation.—
Fran Golden,
AFAR Media,
29 Oct. 2025
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From the ways in which games are developed to hacks for completing levels, Tan said the technology's ramifications across the sector can't be overstated.—
Lucy Handley,
CNBC,
1 Nov. 2025
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There are still many ways the trade truce can fall apart.—
Kerry Brown,
Time,
31 Oct. 2025
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Local resident Lee Needham also told the BBC that the crash site was close to houses, train tracks, industrial units and electrical towers.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Flooding also caused subway delays as crews worked to remove water from the tracks.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Trajectories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trajectories. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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