Thesaurus results for TRAJECTORY

trajectory

noun

Definition of trajectory

as in path

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 trajectory Then, in 2022, Miller received a call that would change the trajectory of his daughter’s case. — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026 Engineers used the test to assess how the rockets performed across range, trajectory and accuracy. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026 Ship successfully deployed 20 V3 Starlinks on Flight 13 last month, but on a suborbital trajectory, and the satellites soon crashed back to Earth. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2026 After all, Miller and Dominic Purcell had a similar trajectory as actors. — Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for trajectory

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Noun

Rain chances along the storm's path remain over 60% on Wednesday, according to weather service forecasts.

— Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
Aitken is hopeful that the team’s sale will open a path to a new land deal with incoming owner Stan Kroenke.

— Sam Blum, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of path

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The Mamdani administration has taken encouraging steps, including offering free naloxone by mail through its Just in Case campaign and investing $12 million to train and employ 500 additional peer specialists.

— Joel Teron, New York Daily News, 31 Aug. 2026
That combination—a hard deadline six years out and a Congress that can’t agree on next steps—is precisely what Shedden says is pushing clients toward the exits early, even though claiming at 62 locks in a permanently smaller monthly check for life.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of steps

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The world of the show isn’t perfect, but its characters are kind in the face of obstacles, and each half-hour arc bends reassuringly toward justice.

— Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2026
That strange hue will gradually fade in the hour following moonrise, as Earth's satellite arcs away from the skyline.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of arc

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At the time, satellites were too large and launching them was too expensive to send an enormous cluster into orbit, as the project proposed.

— Jeffrey Lewis, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2026
The loss of a partner star, could cause a stellar body to be tightly bound to a supermassive black hole, completing an orbit once every few months.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of orbit

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While spoken language might benefit us in myriad ways, no single activity requires it, let alone explains what triggered its ongoing evolution over tens to hundreds of thousands of years.

— Mike McRae September 02, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026
For nearly two additional years, all the way to a six-hour cut of the movie that went deep on Musk’s 2025 DOGE era and his SpaceX IPO plate-spin this summer.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of way

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The exemption had allowed the company to ship small parcels directly to its customers tariff free, a model that, combined with its Chinese supply chain, contributed to its rapid ascent.

— John Liu, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026
Following Parton’s death, the collection rockets all the way to first place with only a few days of solid tracking activity behind its ascent.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

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