Thesaurus results for TRAJECTORIES

trajectories

noun

plural of trajectory

as in paths

the curved course along which something (such as a rocket) moves through the air or through space the trajectory of the missile

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Recent Examples of trajectories Even within the highest echelons of wealth concentration, these two groups are on different trajectories. — Markus Schneider, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026 The One Media Capital Fund will target Italian and international film and TV production companies that shoot in Italy, supporting their operations, the development of new projects and providing guidance to their growth trajectories. — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026 On the table are potential science value and notional flight trajectories of individual landing sites given the capabilities and payload of the SkyFall helicopters. — Leonard David, Space.com, 15 Oct. 2026 As the two clubs meet on Wednesday night, each on different trajectories in football’s world of snakes and ladders, that question remains. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026 The trajectories separated into four distinct clusters corresponding to rest, meditation, music, and the movie. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 Oct. 2026 The test was conducted to verify critical hypersonic technologies, including flight trajectories, speed, guidance and control systems, and the vehicle’s ability to maneuver at low altitudes. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026 But much of the deleveraging framework, Condon acknowledged, assumes the underlying businesses continue to perform largely in line with their pre-transaction trajectories, making execution incredibly important. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026 Becerra has openly discussed the details of his parents’ story, which unfolded on both sides of the border and in many ways reflects Mexican immigrant trajectories during the historical period of the 1920s and 1930s. — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

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The company has been stretching to meet customers’ needs and was reviewing different financial paths to expand production and become more competitive, Solidigm said in a statement Friday.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Plazas and landscaped paths create room to pause between destinations.

— Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of paths

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The other two, Descript and Resemble AI, had taken steps to make nonconsensual cloning harder.

— Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Yet over the past year, Netanyahu has taken steps that angered Trump and others in his administration, including strikes in Lebanon and Gaza that undercut his regional peace efforts.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

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All of that aligns the series with a particular strain of reality show in which participants are expected to follow certain patterns of behavior that can be neatly edited into episodic arcs.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
Even Santos’ mundane stories sound like character-building arcs in a rugged epic, never mind the ones involving animal run-ins.

— Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of arcs

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The kick stage will be able to take big payloads from LEO to higher-energy orbits — for example, up to 8,800 pounds (4,000 kg) to geostationary orbit, a popular hangout for spy, communications and weather satellites that lies 22,236 miles (35,785 kilometers) above Earth.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 2 June 2026
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

Definition of orbits

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Its faster trial infrastructure, its more integrated translational pathways, and its willingness to link industrial strategy to health delivery hold lessons for governments around the world.

— Ruby Wang, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Even alternative pathways, such as adoption, surrogacy, or gamete or embryo donation, can cost a small fortune.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of pathways

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Many of these 13 tracks have popped up as demos in Jensen’s live shows or NTS sets, cooking down to their essence in plain sight.

— Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2026
Hall’s close association with Russell — whose own songs went from unknown to intensely beloved in the decades since he was taken by AIDS, and who collaborated on several of the album’s tracks — helped boost the project.

— Jack Denton, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026

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