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orient

verb as in familiarize

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He explains that the ideal position for the tag was directly behind the blowhole and oriented toward the head so it could capture feeding activity during deep dives.

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Owning more defensively oriented sectors with high dividend yields, such as healthcare, real estate, and consumer staples, offers protection as well.

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"And because we can design how the defects are oriented, we can engineer them to exhibit non-zero dipolar interactions."

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This process, known as "ion pairing," keeps the reacting molecules close together and oriented just right to produce a single, desired mirror-image product.

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Beyond the distant shapes of buildings still standing inside Gaza City, there's almost nothing left to orient you here, or identify the neighbourhoods that once held tens of thousands of people.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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