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linear

[lin-ee-er] / ˈlɪn i ər /






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“Anytime you see parabolic moves or linear vertical moves, that’s telling you that it’s less about a sober assessment of a company’s prospects on a straight valuation basis than it is about people chasing momentum.”

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

But today’s work lives are rarely so linear.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, most leading tenor saxophonists adapted either the hefty, gruff attack of Coleman Hawkins or the airy, linear style of Lester Young.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

"Here we have two hominin species that are together. And human evolution is not linear, it's a bushy tree, there are life forms that go extinct."

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

The concept of discovery brings with it a new sense of time as linear rather than cyclical.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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