axes
Example Sentences
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He remembers using ice axes to climb in the winter when he was only 15.
As evidence, the ministry said that “on several axes across the Donbas front, Russian forces have made only marginal gains at the cost of tens of thousands of casualties.”
From Seattle Times
One of D&D’s most enduring contributions is the idea of alignment — a moral category determined along the axes of good versus evil and law versus chaos.
From New York Times
It measures its success along three main axes, asking each of the programs to measure how many people were helped, how well services were provided, and ultimately gauging the impact – were people better off?
From Seattle Times
We pick up airstrikes, all the combined arms Russian military forces that start assaulting across the border on multiple axes.
From Washington Post
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