parabolic

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“When you see certain sectors go linear or even parabolic, that’s at best unpredictable, at worst extraordinarily dangerous,” said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026

Sandisk and Micron—key members of a small group of memory stocks whose parabolic gains have lifted stocks near records—both fell more than 13%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

From the Eighth Avenue entrance, passengers will descend sweeping staircases into a parabolic main hall whose soft curve contrasts with the structure’s overall solidity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026

“Semiconductor and memory-related stocks have experienced parabolic advances since the March lows, with several momentum indicators reaching historically elevated levels,” said LPL Financial’s Buchbinder.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Nevertheless, his idealized parabolic trajectory in a vacuum was an essential precondition for the much more sophisticated analysis by Robins and Euler of actual trajectories.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton