linear
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“By going after finance guys, they’re going after guys who tend to operate in a more linear mindset.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
When WHtR was examined in randomized clinical trials involving heart failure, the relationship was linear.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
The physicists liked physical models, and economists liked linear models, so machine learning didn’t fit cleanly into either camp and was viewed with suspicion.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
"There's a mindset from employers that it's very linear… and that all the symptoms are the same every day," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Yet he was not quite at the goal: simple math told him that reaching that energy would require a linear tube many meters in length—“rather awkwardly long for laboratory purposes.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing linear
Expressions and Equations
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Algebra
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STAAR English I: Elements of Literature
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