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Recent Examples of trajectory
This could be with work or your life’s trajectory in general.
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Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
Patterson’s rise to fame follows the trajectory of perhaps the most fearsomely popular online comics.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
There have been other bumps in the road, but other than the odd trade dispute or some difference over intellectual property, this has been a relationship that has been moving on an upward trajectory.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2025
Subramaniam compared its trajectory to reggaeton, which crossed into Afrobeats and Punjabi music.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
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Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
Patterson’s rise to fame follows the trajectory of perhaps the most fearsomely popular online comics.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
There have been other bumps in the road, but other than the odd trade dispute or some difference over intellectual property, this has been a relationship that has been moving on an upward trajectory.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2025
Subramaniam compared its trajectory to reggaeton, which crossed into Afrobeats and Punjabi music.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trajectory
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Chasing the dream — and the visa The H-1B visa fundamentally shaped her career path, Qian said.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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Federal agencies are now kickstarting their shutdown contingency plans, including the scaling back of services and the furloughing of thousands of staff until Democrats and Republicans find a path forward.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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The new truck routes and restrictions are the result of study, coordination and collaboration between city officials, local residents, area small business owners and trucking companies, city officials said.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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This left kids, seniors and people from nonwhite, working-class communities with few alternative routes.—
Menika Dirkson,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated a two-game lead over the Phillies in the National League Division Series, and as Turner neared the dugout steps, the anger returned.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Elwood Bar and Grill The Elwood, at the corner of Brush and East Adams, is steps from Comerica Park.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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The move into making dramas in the micro format figures for Inter Medya because a lot of the series in the micro-drama world are telenovela-esque, with dramatic and soapy arcs and a large number of episodes, and Inter Medya is well-versed in the traditional long form of the telenovela.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
6 Oct. 2025
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But in the small areas of freedom McAvoy allows himself outside the main thrust of the familiar rags-to-riches-to-regret arc there are sharp little digressions and darker shadowy corners that suggest there’s more to the film, and to McAvoy as a filmmaker, than initially meets the eye.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
4 Oct. 2025
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite in all of Earth’s history, completing an orbit around the Earth at an altitude of hundreds of miles (or kilometers) above the ground every 90 minutes.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
1 Oct. 2025
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Taylor compiled the threesome’s beats onto CDs and sent them to songwriters in his orbit — among them Nicole Morier, who decided to write a song to one of their beats during a session with Britney Spears.—
Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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And Maeve goes through a lot during the season and a lot of the scenes are challenging, but in the best way.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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Are the bees, in fact, pantomiming the way itself?—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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Her ascent in the digital content space started out with prank phone calls and comedy sketches inspired by her Southern Belle upbringing that drew over 3 million followers on TikTok.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Oct. 2025
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This indicates that any future glide phase would likely occur after the visible ascent, which is out of sight but still trackable.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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The track is a synthesis of where Swift is in her life, in a pop era threaded with happiness, family and the promise of forever.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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That’s partly because, after years of living in lo-fi and recording on a four-track machine, the band can now open the doors to prestigious studios with top-dollar equipment (alongside producer Alex Farrar).—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Trajectory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trajectory. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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