Use "steepness" in a sentence

1. Up it flew arcing gently over, rapidly losing energy because of the steepness of the trajectory

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2. the cliff to the top, essentially creating a ladder of vegetation that disappeared above me, where the steepness of the wall tapered off

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3. But, its steepness and great height,

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4. Look at STEEPNESS of temperature Gradient

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5. While Stainless Steel, with a greater steepness has a

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6. It was still climbing, but the Mustang drove upwards with the slightest adjustment of the pressure on the gas and Fred didn't remember that its speed had ever slackened because of the steepness of an upgrade

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7. reasons than to slow down when on intermediate steepness; a racer

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8. dealt with in context, according to the slope steepness, the snow

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9. ally by somewhere on intermediate steepness; otherwise, we'd all

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10. steepness or because their students need the compassion

11. ramp, and there comes a steepness when the next carved turn you

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12. The slope steepness is the most abused of the three variables,

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13. Then, steepness alone isn't the

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14. than necessary: but the one or two measly degrees in steepness will

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15. planting when they get to intermediate steepness

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16. These are real pleasant safe parallel turns, and the steepness

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17. turns, not quite carved because of the steepness, are big and fast in

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18. snow, and it helps if you have some steepness to work with

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19. not, and deep snow that's just the right steepness is about the only

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20. were skidded, not carved, because of the steepness, and then we

21. steepness, but they pretty much admit in their literature that it

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22. won't have much bounce to it, because of the moderate steepness

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23. Okay, back up on advanced steepness, it's wise to realize we're

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24. If all we have on the advanced steepness is moguls, it's high

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25. advanced steepness, these turns need to be skidded in my book, for

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26. ---again, the easy task for new steepness with difficult snow

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27. picture it being done on the same steepness as the pole angle:

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28. and this includes not only the steepness,

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29. them on a steepness they are comfortable with so we

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30. slow speeds on a flat slope--but, if the steepness still

31. No Hill Too Fast, as it wrongly implies the steepness of

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32. steepness they have to work with, as well as their

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33. But Jeff and Paul had grossly underestimated the steepness of the trail

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34. Who would dream of accounting for their existence, their general plan, or their special adaptation to climate, position, slope, steepness, or prospect, by the theory that the first cottages at the top were created by stones shot down from the decaying rocks at the pinnacle; and that all the myriads of houses below grew out of the earliest chalets; and that from infinite numbers of stone-avalanches, supplying material, the fittest forms of habitation survived, and adapted themselves to the nooks, or crevices, or platforms, or slopes, of the ice or granite inclinations? Yet this would be a probable result from such a cause, in comparison with the development and growth of the vast system of life, including the flora and fauna of all levels, out of the dead elements of atheistic physiology

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35. The burst with which the carriage started out of the village and up the rise beyond, was soon checked by the steepness of the hill

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36. {105} I looked, then, after Christian, to see him go up the hill, where I perceived he fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon his hands and his knees, because of the steepness of the place

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37. And as he’d been demonstrating for the last two hours, neither her weight, nor the altitude, nor the snow, nor the steepness of the slopes made any difference to him

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38. Depending on the steepness of the curve, different trades can become more or less favorable as you buy and sell relatively cheap or relatively expensive options

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39. The width of the spread depends on the steepness of the skew

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40. The aspect of the skews which changes over time and changing market conditions is the steepness of the skew, or the slope

41. Most often, the steepness of the skew increases at times of higher volatility, and decreases at times of lower volatility

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42. As always, O’Neil looked to the market for confirmation of his views, and he saw that something stronger was clearly going on under the surface as evidenced by the steepness of the trend as the market came up off the bottom with tremendous power and strength

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43. On the way up, however, given the sharpness and steepness of the rally, some leading stocks would exhibit a great deal of volatility as they ran up sharply, pulled back sharply for a few days, and then turned and charged to new price highs

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44. The steepness of the market’s decline caused O’Neil to begin seeing some similarities to the bear market of 1962, which finally culminated in a climactic low during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962

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45. • Yield curve steepness is often used as a proxy for the reward for bearing interest rate risk

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46. Survey-based bond risk premia have given a better picture of the market’s required reward for interest rate risk than has curve steepness; survey-based premia have trended up and down together with the inflation level

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47. The steepness of the probability-weighting function at very low and very high (but not quite extreme) probabilities is complicated by one more feature

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48. Many studies document countercyclical ex ante Sharpe ratios based on valuation ratios or yield curve steepness and then assume that such predictability reflects investors’ rational risk assessments and preferences

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49. Yield curve steepness is a noisy measure of either part

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50. It may be a poor BRP proxy because mean-reverting rate expectations dominate curve steepness when short-term rates are exceptionally high or low

51. Yield curve steepness is the simplest and most popular proxy for the ex ante BRP, but it has its flaws

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52. The forward rate between 4 and 5 years has a negative coefficient, suggesting that YC curvature rather than steepness predicts returns: the more curved (humped) the forward rate curve, the higher the expected excess return of all long bonds

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53. In contrast, curve steepness has not exhibited any secular uptrend or downtrend

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54. Predictive power of yield curve steepness: Correlations with future returns and yield changes, 1962–2009

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55. To reiterate, curve steepness reflects both rate expectations and required risk premia

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56. Unless we can identify those rate expectations (as we will try to do with the help of survey data and term structure models), curve steepness gives us a very noisy measure of the BRP

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57. Indeed, the empirical correlation between curve steepness and the 3-month bill rate is—0

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58. A Fed study by Rosenberg–Maurer (2008) spliced different types of data and estimation methods (for periods when the Kim–Wright curves are not yet available) to create a long history of curve steepness split into its rate expectation and risk premium components

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59. , the share of long-maturity (greater than 10 year) bonds in outstanding government debt is positively correlated with both yield curve steepness and with next year excess bond return

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60. Mean-reverting rate expectations (which are negatively related to the level of inflation) have offset the impact on yield curve steepness of the inflation risk premium (which varies positively with the level of inflation)

61. Empirically, single-factor models (roughly, assuming parallel shifts in the yield curve) do explain a large chunk of bond return variation and the remaining factors (related to evolving curve steepness or curvature or even more maturity-specific details) may not earn significant long-run premia

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62. Rolldown returns tend to be largest at intermediate maturities because at the front end curve steepness creates a smaller rolldown effect due to short duration, whereas at the back end a long duration can even hurt because there the yield curve is often mildly inverted

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63. Turning to the third, the inverse correlation between curve steepness and swap spread has been attributed to Treasury scarcity, monetary policy stance, and issuer reactions to the yield curve environment

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64. Some carry traders venture into less liquid assets (municipal curve steepness, credit curve steepness, distressed debt, etc

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65. Yield curve steepness has had an impressive ability to forecast GDP growth since World War II and inverted yield curves have been the most successful recession predictors

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66. I should also add that the zero interest rate boundary (nominal rates cannot fall below zero or investors prefer their mattresses to banks) complicates yield curve analysis, including the relation between curve steepness and economic growth prospects

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67. These studies identify expected returns by the ability of some countercyclical indicator (such as yield curve steepness or consumption–wealth ratio) to predict near-term returns—and assume that fitted realized returns in a regression are the expected returns of a rational market

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68. The correlation between curve steepness (or, in jargon, the forward-implied yield change) and next quarter change in the 10-year yield is—0

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69. 13, while the correlation between curve steepness and next quarter excess bond return is + 0

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70. Curve steepness has over time become a less effective predictor of future returns in duration-timing models and curve-trading models

71. Given the broader audience for this book, I focus here on the loose concept of curve steepness (or term spread)

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72. If there is a strong case for, say, only a positive relation between an indicator (say, curve steepness) and future returns, one can constrain the relevant regression coefficient to be non-negative

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73. Of the variables, curve steepness (YC) is the best matched to the business cycle in terms of timing

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74. Yield curve steepness mainly depends on inflation conditions and is steepest in disinflationary stagnations

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75. This steepness characterizes the speed of the forecast quality deterioration occurring due to the passage of time (approaching the expiration date)

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76. Note the steepness of the curve in Figure 14

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77. “We arrived at the foot of a hill, the ascent of which was rendered quite impracticable by reason of its steepness and the ice with which it was covered

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