linear
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On the media side, linear TV continues to face declines while streaming competition is intensifying, especially as smaller services look to merge.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
“They watch it on linear and they watch it on Paramount+, where it’s consistently been a top streaming performer.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
Nick Hilton, writing in the Independent, gives it three stars, saying it "has to work as a collection of clips" to survive in a world where linear TV is no longer king.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
The competing magnetic interactions naturally drive repeated reorientations during motion, leading to a friction force that does not change in a simple linear way with load.
From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026
By the end of the evening, Sturtevant had sketched the first linear genetic map of half a dozen genes along a Drosophila chromosome.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
