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This innovation goes back a ways, to Enzo Ferrari himself, who decreed that the power in his cars should always rise, linearly and proportionally, with throttle demand, from low revs to redline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

But the risk is going up, too, and the cost of risk isn’t going up linearly.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

The researchers found that capacitance generally increased linearly with length between 10 and 60 cm, after which gains in capacitance slowed significantly as length increased.

From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2024

Such is the nature of science—it doesn’t march forward linearly toward some kind of perfect truth.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2023

Morgan and Sturtevant extended that anatomical strand in the 1920s, demonstrating that genes were material units, spread linearly along chromosomes.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee