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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

With each track, it takes us a moment to orient ourselves to each perspective, figure out who is speaking and what they want.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 6, 2026

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.

From BBC Nov. 5, 2025

This design allows patients to use both their natural peripheral vision and the new prosthetic central vision simultaneously, improving their ability to orient themselves and move around.

From Science Daily Oct. 22, 2025

The invisible guards, however, did not greet me as conspicuously to orient me about my place in life.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

First, the patient orients the artificial hand according to the grasping location, slowly moves the fingers together, and then grabs the pen.

From Science Daily Dec. 5, 2023

The first irregular signals suggested something had gone wrong with the attitude control computer that orients Voyager 1 in space.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2022

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

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

The jaw-dropping property is located on a hilltop overlooking L.A. and was “masterfully oriented to command panoramic sunrise-to-sunset city views.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 2, 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

“We’re cheering those folks on as loudly as we can, but with our mission and vision we’re really orienting our work around the healthcare piece,” she says.

From Salon Jan. 9, 2025

"We're working with engineers now to automate this orienting process so that it can be done with other samples in the future."

From Science Daily Mar. 4, 2024

Over the years, despite the chaos that tumbled down its feed, it became an orienting force; a way that we parsed and organized information for the coming day, or week.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2023

He beamed urbanely as he began orienting Colonel Scheisskopf to his new surroundings.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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