parabola
Example Sentences
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When she booked a Las Vegas residency at 46, yet avoided a downward slope on the fame parabola?
From New York Times
On a tolerably warm Sunday afternoon, I sat in bliss as a butterfly joined the cast of this outdoor production, tracing parabolas of enchantment as though a new member of Titania’s fairy train.
From Los Angeles Times
Ho often asks partygoers, “You know middle school parabolas and circles? Once you start making a cubic equation, things get really hard.... There are so many open questions about them.”
From Scientific American
Alexander Calder’s “Four Arches,” in downtown L.A., enormous slashing steel red-orange parabolas 63 feet tall, are still bold and vivacious 45 years after they were installed.
From Los Angeles Times
“I’m kind of like a parabola antenna, so that I can magnify the small voices of people who aren’t often heard.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
