reciprocity
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Chinese officials, anticipating reciprocity, wanted to know which American officials their executives could see.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The two men have developed an unconventional alliance that some say is built on strategic reciprocity.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
"Confidence and reciprocity are beginning to take shape to open the door to engagement on the most difficult issues," says Gagnon whom we meet inside the UN's vast, heavily fortified compound.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
This long established principle, known as reciprocity, has made it difficult for scientists to independently control how thermal energy enters and leaves a material.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
With him came escalating demands for land and service—the veneer of reciprocity was fading.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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These kinds of resonances and reciprocities can allow a story to jump between elements without the need for novelistic bridge passages.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2014
We may live in a world of technological prowess, but we are still creatures guided by ancient reciprocities.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2012
The great American metaphysician Chuck Jones discerned some years ago that the universe operates in sequences of violent Newtonian reciprocities.
From Time Magazine Archive
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New York life had grown too busy for anybody to pay much attention to the older reciprocities of etiquette.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
Looking through the window, as he did when he talked to Barry Lake, or James Randolph, he saw life as a mass of unyielding reciprocities.
From The Real Adventure by Raymond Moreau Crosby
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