alignment
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Among other things, it is meant to boost "the alignment of development strategies", Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian told reporters ahead of Wang's visit.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Playing the nickel position in Serra’s 4-2-5 defensive alignment, Ace contributed 52 tackles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
"By carefully tracking the direction the radio waves and X-rays oscillate as the magnetar rotates, the team found that the alignment of 1E1547's magnetic and rotational poles were ideal for detecting vacuum birefringence."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
An eclipse happens when the sun, moon and earth are in alignment.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
She was nothing but a huge black maw with bad teeth alignment and a serious overbite, and she’d done nothing for centuries but eat without brushing after meals.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
"On the contrary, we need a multilateralism that is more deeply rooted in the people and not just in governments, biases or economic lobbying. We need new alignments, new alliances."
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
The long-term consequences could outlast the war itself, reshaping regional alignments in ways that leave Iran more isolated.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
Although such alignments are unlikely at any given moment, Titan's outward migration sometimes creates these resonances.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026
He reshuffled diplomatic alignments to buy time, giving the U.S. a stronger position by the following decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Such statistical alignments must happen by chance every now and then.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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