orientate
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“It’s an actual piece of physical feedback you can get to help orientate yourself,” says Calahan Young, who is headed to his second Paralympics with the U.S. team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024
We will first orientate you by showing you an inverted map of North America so the eclipse's point of entry is at the top of the page and the exit at the bottom.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
Their horizons have no landmarks to hang on to: nothing to orientate yourself toward.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2023
To begin the procedure, a patient dons a nasal clip that the machine uses to orientate itself.
From The Verge ● Aug. 24, 2020
The extra syllable in orientate is ugly and unnecessary, though not a federal offense.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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The pump orientates 360 degrees, so you can place it in any case configuration.
From The Verge ● Oct. 21, 2021
S. Petronio is situated at its southern end, and orientates south by west.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe
This orientates all the elements of the understanding, as the magnet collects into regular curves the filings of a magnetic metal.
From The Psychology of Revolution by Le Bon, Gustave
The orientates, though in infinite numbers, scarcely came out but in the night, when they made every thing in the cabins seem as if in motion, from the particular noise in crawling about.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert
"It's the way that they do things - family orientated."
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2025
The properties of clay and claystone crucially depend on how the tiny sediment particles are orientated.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
Streets are narrow and orientated to channel the typically northwestern breeze.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
Hundreds of libraries, both traditional book-centric institutions and specific tool orientated ones, offer these services, and they're easily searchable.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2023
Western music, being more orientated towards harmony than its non-Western counterparts, gradually formed hierarchies among the twelve notes, so that the listener's ears latched on to a 'home' in the sound.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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McGinley’s recent imagery, exhibited for the first time at the Marlborough show, is his most compositional work yet, orientating his youthful bodies in the flood of colour and light that nature provides in full bloom.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2020
"Christopher Mead, Assistant Undersecretary for External Affairs," the assistant said, orientating himself.
From Citadel by Dongen, H. R. van
Phobos was just rising in the west, and orientating herself by this tiny moon she struck out in a north-easterly direction, seeking a favorable current to carry her toward Tarog.
From The Martian Cabal by Starzl, Roman Frederick
It therefore assists us in properly orientating ourselves to read another treatise from the greatest mathematician of antiquity that sets clearly before us his indebtedness to the mechanical applications of his subject.
From Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics; a Treatise of Archimedes by Archimedes
So, orientating once more like a fragile tendril, he reached again for the banister rail, and got it.
From Aaron's Rod by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)