reciprocal
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Girls tend to be more adept at mimicking social responses like eye contact and reciprocal play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Canada, for its part, on Monday announced reciprocal tariffs on U.S. goods equaling $20 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
They borrow the vocabulary of that relationship — we remember you; we know your favorites; we missed you — while removing the reciprocal part entirely.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
To willing partners in China, America should offer terms seeking transparency into ownership and supply chains, cooperation with foreign regulatory investigations, compliance with U.S. sanctions and export controls, and reciprocal access for American companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
A reciprocal relationship between people and clergy is dramatized as the congregation takes an active role in the recitation of the mass.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Since they are not negative reciprocals, the lines are not perpendicular.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
The slopes are reciprocals of each other, but they have the same sign.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
We know that perpendicular lines have slopes that are negative reciprocals.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
The secant, cotangent, and cosecant are all reciprocals of 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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