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orientation

[awr-ee-uhn-tey-shuhn, -en-, ohr-] / ˌɔr i ənˈteɪ ʃən, -ɛn-, ˌoʊr- /


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The December 2024 collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime sharply changed the regional orientation.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

During both sessions, they performed a spatial orientation task while their brain activity was recorded in an MRI scanner.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

Virginia, Ginsburg’s opinion for the court explaining the Constitution’s guarantees against sex discrimination—which judges apply in cases of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity as well.

From Slate Aug. 7, 2026

He wrote the court’s four major rulings rejecting discrimination based on sexual orientation.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

If during the orientation program we’d begun to feel some ownership of the space, we were now a glaring anomaly—poppy seeds in a bowl of rice.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

"The Fifa World Cup 2026 is an inclusive event that welcomes people from all backgrounds. Fans of all sexual orientations and gender identities are welcome at matches and events," it said in a statement.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

Their experiments have so far involved radium nuclei that sit in random orientations inside each molecule at high temperature.

From Science Daily Oct. 26, 2025

“It’s weird to think about a life in the vertical as opposed to the horizontal,” Nordwind said with a laugh, referring to the respective orientations of videos on TikTok and YouTube.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2025

The VSM model describes systems at five levels: The first three dealing with things as they are, the fourth deals with future possibilities and the fifth deals with the tensions between those orientations.

From Salon May 10, 2025

Beyond that, they were of many backgrounds and sexual orientations.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart




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