straight line
Example Sentences
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The researchers addressed this by using the shortest path in their geometric model of color perception rather than relying on a simple straight line.
From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026
It may not be a straight line higher from here, but plenty of tailwinds can keep the Okta stock price rally going, particularly if its growth rates continue exceeding market expectations.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
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
Like any system that depends on compounding interest — earning a return on the interest in addition to the principal — your investments rarely move in a straight line.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
Perhaps a quarter mile away, across a stretch of yellow, waist- high grass, was a straight line of trees—an ancient raised causeway, Erickson said.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
