arcuate
adjective
ar·cu·ate
ˈär-kyə-wət 
-ˌwāt
: curved like a bow
an arcuate cloud
arcuately
adverb
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Early neuroscience on smartphone use showed the brain’s arcuate nucleus area activates whenever our phones ping or ring us.
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Kyra Bobinet, Md, Mph, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
Most of them lie along the long, arcuate chain along the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands, stretching far into the Pacific Ocean.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2019
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Kyra Bobinet, Md, Mph, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
Most of them lie along the long, arcuate chain along the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands, stretching far into the Pacific Ocean.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2019
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arcuate
adjective
ar·cu·ate
ˈär-kyə-wət
-ˌwāt
-ˌwāt
: curved like a bow
arcuate fibers in the brain
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