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lateral

adjective as in of, at, from, or to a side

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Lateral Squats - For this variation, you step to the side as your do your squats.

U.S. policy stipulates that military coups trigger an automatic cutoff of bi-lateral military assistance.

In the absence of a bi-lateral breakthrough, Israel should use the Arab Peace Initiative (API) to break the ice.

One never sees lateral passing these days -- instead it's plunge or pass.

But under pressure, many firms are giving up on organic growth and turning to a lateral-hire strategy in the downturn.

The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.

While a person has the natural right also to the lateral support of his land, yet he cannot use it to the injury of another.

The owner of land adjoining a highway has no right to the lateral support of the soil of the street.

Sometimes these traps were weirs or by-washes, made of long lateral tanks of wicker-work.

The pillars are strengthened against lateral yielding by horizontal and diagonal bracing.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lateral, such as: oblique, crabwise, edgeways, flanking, side by side, and sidelong.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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