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Recent Examples of trajectories
Community colleges and regional universities open doors to millions each year, offering affordable pathways to careers and degrees that change family trajectories for generations.
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Ed Smith-Lewis, Fortune, 2 May 2026
There have also been reverse trajectories.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
This predictive modeling engine aims to model evolutionary trajectories, including current genomic states, potential future directions, and possible areas of vulnerability along those paths.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
Most people live lives whose day-to-day features aren’t exactly gripping viewing and whose trajectories are difficult to squeeze into the structures and strictures of serialized television.
—David Faris, TheWeek, 24 Apr. 2026
These include net deflections and unusual ball trajectories.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Apr. 2026
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh each snapped postseason droughts in 2025-26 and are about to embark on a series that pits two hockey clubs on different trajectories.
—Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
This ongoing research helps explore profound questions of how environmental shifts shaped life on Earth, including human trajectories.
—Zelalem Bedaso, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2026
Here are the English quartet's respective scoring trajectories in their 50-plus seasons.
—Will Jeanes, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
Ed Smith-Lewis, Fortune, 2 May 2026
There have also been reverse trajectories.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
This predictive modeling engine aims to model evolutionary trajectories, including current genomic states, potential future directions, and possible areas of vulnerability along those paths.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
Most people live lives whose day-to-day features aren’t exactly gripping viewing and whose trajectories are difficult to squeeze into the structures and strictures of serialized television.
—David Faris, TheWeek, 24 Apr. 2026
These include net deflections and unusual ball trajectories.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Apr. 2026
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh each snapped postseason droughts in 2025-26 and are about to embark on a series that pits two hockey clubs on different trajectories.
—Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
This ongoing research helps explore profound questions of how environmental shifts shaped life on Earth, including human trajectories.
—Zelalem Bedaso, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2026
Here are the English quartet's respective scoring trajectories in their 50-plus seasons.
—Will Jeanes, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trajectories
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With its winding paths, extensive planting, and choreographed vistas offering views of four states, Olana is a sort of Gesamtkunstwerk to which Church devoted the final decades of his career.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Many of those paths lead to warfare.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
3 May 2026
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On the website dedicated to its shutdown, the airline said passengers who were expecting to travel should not go to the airport, directing them to a page for refund status and next steps.—
Yuliya Talmazan,
NBC news,
2 May 2026
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The conversations are at an early stage and no concrete steps have been taken toward developing the product, the people said.—
Thomas Buckley,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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Receivers Mikey Matthews for white and Landon Ellis for blue scored the other two touchdowns on red zone crossing routes.—
Sean Campbell,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2026
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Airlines have been adding flights since Spirit’s bankruptcy filing last year on some of its routes and at major airports.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
2 May 2026
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The cut features plenty of unseen character arcs and alternate takes.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
1 May 2026
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Dana and Harper occasionally feel extraneous, there to fill out the group rather than carry out their own narrative arcs, but the bond between Charlie and Lorcan, and Lorcan’s search for his place in the world, is a solid emotional core the show never loses sight of.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
1 May 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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Food noise stems from the intersection multiple biological systems such as hormones, blood sugar regulation, dopamine pathways and psychological processes.—
Alora Bopray,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development and city agencies continue to prioritize unit production over ownership pathways.—
Izabela Engel,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Apr. 2026
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There are ways of using social media as just a private photo album or a diary, but it is designed to be public and for content to spread beyond its context.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Subway has launched a new value menu with more than 15 entrees under $5, offering more protein-forward meals at a time when cost-conscious customers are craving ways to get the most bang for their buck.—
Kelly McCarthy,
ABC News,
28 Apr. 2026
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The record is nearing completion with about a dozen tracks already slated.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2026
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The title track, with its glassy melody and woozy, almost stumbling groove, deploys wholesome, end-of-the-night, comedown energy not unlike Bicep’s most beloved tracks.—
Reid BG,
Pitchfork,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Trajectories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trajectories. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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