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  • It is impossible to know what murky convergence of chromosomal matter, parent-child dynamics, and alignment of the cosmos was responsible, but Christopher Johnson McCandless came into the world with unusual gifts and a will not easily deflected from its trajectory.  (source)
    trajectory = prior path
  • The boy watched it through its trajectory for some time, until it was hidden behind the white houses surrounding the plaza.  (source)
    trajectory = route
  • [speaking of a mechanical hound] It has a trajectory we decide for it. It follows through.  (source)
    trajectory = path or route
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  • The force of such a thing is its momentum, its trajectory.†  (source)
  • Tally looked down, plotting trajectories from the hilltop, shushing David when he started to speak again, the wheels of her brain spinning.†  (source)
  • Mishka shook his head in appreciation of either history's trajectory or his turns of phrase.†  (source)
  • Using regression analysis to control for other factors that might influence life trajectories, it was then possible to measure the impact of a single factor—in this case, a woman's first name—on her educational, income, and health outcomes.†  (source)
  • But since the mech was lying flat, the head shot out on a trajectory parallel to the ground.†  (source)
  • Out in the sun, the inspectors took off their suit jackets—it was going to be a humid day— under which they wore the short-sleeve shirts and clipped black ties that made Elwood think of Cape Canaveral and those smart men with impossible trajectories crammed into their skulls.†  (source)
  • In this way, Papaw's death permanently altered the trajectory of our family.†  (source)
  • The transceiver crackles with wind speeds, air pressure, trajectories.†  (source)
  • As you say, that gives us three points—more than enough to plot a trajectory—if they belong to the same evolutionary branch of the species.†  (source)
  • All performed flawlessly, flying nice elliptical trajectories downrange to impact on the slack.†  (source)
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