straight line
Example Sentences
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Past and present don’t collide so much as they fuse together; they aren’t two opposing places in time, but rather, a straight line.
From Salon • May 25, 2026
A quick look at the chart shows a nearly straight line upward, and you wouldn’t be wrong to think they look ridiculously overbought.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
The supply chain is a straight line of dependencies: Filipino consumers rely on Vietnamese rice, and Vietnamese farmers rely on Chinese fertiliser.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
As JPMorgan’s stock chart shows, the march to a record close on Jan. 6 wasn’t a straight line.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026
Light doesn’t go in a straight line, but in a curved path around stars—an effect that the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington went on an expedition in 1919 to observe.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
