reciprocal
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Eritrea responded by cutting diplomatic relations, saying Ethiopia's decision had left it with no choice but to take reciprocal action.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The United States and China will review the lists "with a view toward providing reduced tariff treatment to those goods in a reciprocal manner," according to the terms released by the White House.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Plus, U.S. and China agree to reciprocal tariff reduction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Girls tend to be more adept at mimicking social responses like eye contact and reciprocal play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
I was really into tongue twisters and funny Shel Silverstein stuff back then, and I loved reciprocal reciting, surprising him with things he’d never heard.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
Since they are not negative reciprocals, the lines are not perpendicular.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
We know that perpendicular lines have slopes that are negative reciprocals.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
We find the slope–intercept form of the equation, and then see if the slopes are negative reciprocals.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
Then find their reciprocals to determine the other functions.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
But of these twenty-four cross-ratios groups of four are equal, so that there are really only six different ones, and these six are reciprocals in pairs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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