orientation
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State lawmakers passed the new measures in response to healthcare professionals who said that efforts to change a teenager’s sexual orientation were both ineffective and harmful.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
Almost 30 states have curbed or outlawed “therapy” that seeks to change minors’ sexual orientation or gender identity—that is, to make them stop being gay, bisexual, or transgender.
From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026
This orientation is illustrated in the last lines of a hymn by Isaac Watts, often sung during Lent: “Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
By analyzing these signals, researchers can determine both the orientation and latitude of rocks when they formed, effectively turning them into a kind of ancient GPS.
From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026
I remembered in the orientation lecture that you weren’t supposed to touch the head of a Vietnamese person.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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