straight line
Example Sentences
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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
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
A show at Hauser & Wirth, “Sometimes a straight line has to be crooked,” puts Henry Taylor’s work in the same room with the work of his mentor, California Modernist James Jarvaise.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
Gaps or spoofing may create straight line segments across land.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
It was not like one of those great photos from the early 1900s where a crazy-looking guy posed with a good-looking mako hung from tail to nose in a straight line.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
