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orient

[awr-ee-uhnt, ‑ee-ent, ohr-, awr-ee-ent, ohr‑] / ˈɔr i ənt, ‑iˌɛnt, ˈoʊr-, ˈɔr iˌɛnt, ˈoʊr‑ /


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It’s only a problem if you think the state should orient itself not around encouraging maximal voting but around announcing the count quickly.

From Slate Jun. 9, 2026

These findings suggest that birds use magnetic information alongside solar cues to orient themselves during flight.

From Science Daily May 31, 2026

It ended after the spacecrafts ran out of fuel and were no longer able to orient themselves toward the Sun.

From BBC Mar. 10, 2026

So, if anything—and this sounds funny to say about future teenagers—I might orient my kids toward more socializing and understanding how they relate to people in their own unique way.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

Although the day was windy, all the guideposts she needed to orient herself were readable.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

The entire fund industry orients products to different types of investors.

From Barron's Oct. 23, 2025

The dung beetle, which disperses seeds as it rolls its dung balls, fertilizing topsoil and enhancing biodiversity and engineering its environment, normally orients itself using the Milky Way and the moon.

From Salon Apr. 15, 2025

He is part of the membership team at Fountain House Hollywood that gives tours, orients new members and writes a regular newsletter, among other duties.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 2, 2024

This has not yet been achieved with any animal species that orients itself to the Earth's magnetic field.

From Science Daily Feb. 13, 2024

He uses his old perspective frame often as he orients himself to the landscapes of his new home.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

O’Malley views Lumentum as being oriented around its primary business of lasers and transceivers, while co-packaged optics is an “add-on once we get towards the end of the decade,” he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

The only event that seemed more oriented toward entertainment than persuasion was the log-cutting competition.

From Slate Jul. 1, 2026

“The New York one was much more oriented toward people in the art community. We didn’t put out this kind of open call,” Dietch explained.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 21, 2026

Founding Fathers including Washington and Hamilton encouraged “manufactures External link,” though businesses in the early Republic were necessarily small and locally oriented.

From Barron's May 2, 2026

All the things I’d ever known that oriented me—trees, the sky, the mountains—none of them was around.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

The pitch from new child brands such as Rini, Evereden or Saint Crewe is that they are orienting tweens and teens to more suitable alternatives.

From Barron's Nov. 28, 2025

Nevertheless, as pope, Francis rehabilitated and reconciled with several liberation theologians once exiled by his predecessors and seemed to share the goal of orienting the church more towards serving the oppressed.

From Salon Apr. 21, 2025

She was orienting her songs around social concerns.

From New York Times Feb. 21, 2024

The maps revealed three components of attention, alerting, orienting and executive control.

From Science Daily Jan. 29, 2024

All across the decks, crewmen called and labored under the hot sun, orienting sails, drilling for fire attacks, clearing deck materials as they readied for the fight that they hoped would come.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi




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