How to Use trajectory in a Sentence
trajectory
noun
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That was the thing that changed the trajectory of our show.
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Clarkisha Kent,
EW.com,
27 Aug. 2019
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And along the way, change the trajectory of our own lives.
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Jim Olson,
Fortune,
25 Dec. 2020
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The outdoors can be the best way to launch on this trajectory.
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Tom Stienstra,
San Francisco Chronicle,
4 Jan. 2018
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This will tell us more about the trajectory the group is on.
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Cate Huston,
Quartz at Work,
19 Aug. 2019
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How much would this delay change the trajectory of the ball?
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Adam Rogers,
WIRED,
10 July 2019
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The trajectory would imply that the launch point of the attack was being masked.
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Tim Lister and Nic Robertson,
CNN,
17 Sep. 2019
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The trajectory was bloodless; the ball spent most of its trip rolling lazily along the ground.
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Robbie Gonzalez,
WIRED,
15 June 2018
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Jordan has many skill sets as a player that will add to the trajectory of our team on the court.
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Hannah Underwood,
Dallas News,
4 May 2021
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The trajectory is there if the Ducks care to meld into the kind of team that wants to seize it and do big things.
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John Canzano,
oregonlive,
2 Jan. 2021
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The fall virus spike and variants doomed that trajectory.
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Colleen Barry,
Star Tribune,
10 May 2021
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The whole trajectory of life is to move out of the shadows, out of darkness, into the light.
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Leah Ollman,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Dec. 2022
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Months of fighting may yet lie ahead, but the trajectory is clear.
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The Economist,
31 Aug. 2017
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How much has the trajectory been altered by two straight wins?
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Pat Brennan,
Cincinnati.com,
15 July 2019
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The next few minutes would change the trajectory of my life — for better or worse.
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Nick Baumgartner and Jeff Seidel,
Detroit Free Press,
14 Jan. 2024
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What are those things that, if solved, would clear your path and change your trajectory?
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Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
18 Oct. 2021
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That’s the forward trajectory with which racist white men fall.
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Stephen A. Crockett Jr.,
The Root,
9 Jan. 2018
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Is this the first game of a new career trajectory for John Ross?
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Cincinnati.com,
11 Sep. 2019
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Is there a pivotal moment in your life that changed the trajectory of your future?
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Anna Moeslein,
Glamour,
28 Oct. 2022
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One that set many clients on an upward trajectory in life.
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Rachel Dissell,
cleveland.com,
16 June 2019
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Instead of a west-to-east trajectory, the jet stream starts to follow more of a north-to-south path.
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David Grossman,
Popular Mechanics,
16 Jan. 2019
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That is why no amount of knowledge can predict the trajectory of such bullets.
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Aaron Gilbreath,
Longreads,
29 May 2018
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An unshakeable fear that changed the trajectory of her life.
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Taylor Hartz,
Hartford Courant,
2 Nov. 2022
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She's got visions, dreams, and goals, and is on a trajectory to hit them all, and then some.
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Dory Jackson,
PEOPLE.com,
28 Feb. 2022
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My goal this year is to keep that trajectory going upward.
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Brendan Marks,
charlotteobserver,
21 Mar. 2018
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Once on a ballistic trajectory, there wasn’t much that could be done to alter the flight.
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Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
16 Sep. 2019
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The museum’s trajectory the last two years has been as wild as a rocket ride.
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Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com,
al,
8 Sep. 2020
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Those few sentences to a reporter may have changed his trajectory.
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Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
9 Apr. 2018
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None of the other 14 songs on our list had the same trajectory.
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Philip Bump,
star-telegram.com,
6 June 2017
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Giolito turned around to see the ball’s trajectory, then dropped his head.
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Bobby Nightengale,
Cincinnati.com,
3 July 2018
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His rise to stardom did not maintain an even trajectory from there.
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Nathan Baird,
cleveland,
2 Aug. 2021
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