curve

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Dame Mary described gardening as "all a learning curve" and said careful planning was key, although she acknowledged she has had a gardener helping one day a week for the past 32 years.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Moreover, though Mr. Parsons’s youth is justly being noticed, art doesn’t easily submit to grading on an age curve.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

At the head of the bond curve, 2-year notes have been trading north of 4% since mid-May, the highest in a year and well north of the current Fed rate benchmark of 3.5% to 3.75%.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

He rejects the Phillips curve paradigm—in which higher employment generates higher inflation through wage pressure—that has guided central banks for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

There was no mistaking the curve of iron tracks slicing through the fertile earth.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood