obliquity

Example Sentences

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Such a slouch, or obliquity, gives us our seasons.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023

It’s not a question of subtlety, which the stage can accommodate, but obliquity, which feels like an evasion of theater’s confrontational power.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021

Sweeping statements were made about genre and obliquity and readerly expectations.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2019

Over the course of some 40,000 years, Earth’s obliquity waivers between 22.1 to 24.5 degrees.

From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2019

Such a result, in the advocacy of a favourite theory, is however in strict accordance with the known obliquity of the greatest and purest minds.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur