How to Use parabolic in a Sentence

parabolic

adjective
  • In recent weeks, its stock price seems to have reached a parabolic state.
    — Joel Shulman, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • There are just so few cars to buy that vehicle prices have gone parabolic.
    — Mark Zandi For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Bigelow said, giving the parabolic cooker a nudge, to keep it aligned with the sun.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Amid euphorias and parabolic curves, no one knows when the peak will come.
    — Gail Marksjarvis, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • This says that an angle-time plot should be a parabolic function.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Futures have gone parabolic because the herd has been too small.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz,morgan Chittum, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
  • They are made of stiff, lightweight glass, cast in molds that spin as the glass cools to bring it into a parabolic shape.
    — Eric Hand, Science | AAAS, 21 May 2018
  • This method even works for baseballs that have a non-parabolic path and air resistance.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 19 May 2021
  • The pavilion, which was sponsored by Hyundai, is made of steel and has a parabolic façade.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Some are more parabolic than others, with the bend occurring all the way from the tip to the butt section.
    — Alberto Knie, Field & Stream, 22 June 2023
  • In other plants, pipes full of fluid run in front of parabolic mirrors, and the fluid heats up in those pipes.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The growth trade has gone almost parabolic since the April lows with a 40% rise in less than four months.
    — Todd Gordon, CNBC, 22 July 2025
  • But like any parabolic move, the stock gave back some of its gains on Thursday and Friday.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 15 Dec. 2025
  • On car headlights, a parabolic surface reflects light back out toward the road.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2024
  • That will keep the center of mass for the head-feet system in a parabolic trajectory.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 12 Dec. 2019
  • At the top, six overlapping steel arches would rise above each side of the tower to form a crowning parabolic dome.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2019
  • The parabolic canopies point the sound back at the field — and at the offenses unfortunate enough to hear it all.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • This is called parabolic flight, and thinking about it too much is a little nauseating by proxy.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2020
  • And yet, above all, his is a towering, parabolic story of resilience.
    — Time, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The parabolic move higher that the Nasdaq has been one for the history books.
    — Jeff Kilburg, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2024
  • While in the air, the skilled pilots will perform a series of parabolic arcs, which cause a brief state of weightlessness in the air.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2020
  • This beam strikes a parabolic mirror that scatters the light and shines it on an array of dozens of photovoltaic calls.
    — New Atlas, 15 June 2025
  • Notice how the data from Josh's jump sort of oscillates around the parabolic plot?
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Copper is a bellwether for global growth, but this kind of parabolic spikes tell us demand and supply have broken down.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2021
  • At the four-minute mark, the capsule will reach the peak of its parabolic flight and then begin to descend back into the atmosphere.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 June 2021
  • Curry has spent his career filling games with parabolic 3-pointers and dazzling drives to the hoop.
    — New York Times, 13 June 2022
  • It is not widely believed that Archimedes used a single parabolic mirror, as it cannot be aimed the same way a flat mirror can.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Maybe take a little bit of your cost base, try to get your cost bases out a little bit, because this thing's been on a parabolic move, but what a great company.
    — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 12 June 2026
  • Sell speculative stocks on parabolic moves higher with no real earnings or revenue to speak of.
    — Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The skip entry’s gentle parabolic flight will reduce the g-forces for future astronauts to just 4.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Dec. 2022

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