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- n. Plural form of parabola.
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“Where the door frame gapped away from the kitchen door, snow sprayed through in parabolas.”
“Eight so-called parabolas in all, eight spurts of weightlessness.”
“They call them parabolas, which is little more than just an elaborate roller-coaster ride.”
“* Graphing points, quadrants, lines, and curves such as parabolas No Mirrors below, please!”
“Sometimes more complex shapes, such as parabolas in subintervals of the partition.”
“After establishing an initial mood of insecure majesty, Davis leads us through parabolas of passion and collapse until he reaches the equally insecure calm at the close.”
“Predicting parabolas is something humans just seem to find intriguing.”
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“He swings free demotically, not to mention culturally, and the parabolas can get wobbly.”
““Excuse me?” she asked, eyebrows curved high like the parabolas of infield fly balls.”
“Written as a letter to his friend Dositheus, the work presents 24 propositions regarding parabolas, culminating in a proof that the area of a parabolic segment (the region enclosed by a parabola and a line) is 4/3 that of a certain inscribed triangle.”
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