obliquity
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Sweeping statements were made about genre and obliquity and readerly expectations.
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2019
Although it does not possess a high obliquity, its elliptical orbit massages the moon’s interior, thanks to Jupiter’s gravitational pull.
From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2019
Although our planet’s obliquity is relatively constant, it does change by a mere few degrees.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2018
Then György Kurtag’s “The Answered Unanswered Question,” music on the edge of obliquity that answers nothing.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2018
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
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