trig
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Alun Jones, an area warden for Eryri National Park Authority, urged those wanting to reach the trig point to be "considerate and don't skip the queue".
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The kids rehearsed months, long into the night, then gave performances to sold-out crowds and scrambled to finish trig and AP history homework too.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2023
Imagine if your old trig worksheets stepped in to help you out when you were stumped on a question.
From The Verge ● Mar. 16, 2022
When solving linear trig equations in terms of only sine or cosine, how do we know whether there will be solutions?
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
“I wasn’t any good at trig in high school,” Mother moaned, slamming the book shut.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
I also had wide and mid-range angled cameras, both mounted on a tripod to be trigged by remotes.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2024
But for aid workers and advocates I spoke to, the open embrace of fleeing Ukrainians has trigged complicated reactions—and the real-life fallout is beginning to unfold.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2022
After a 2011 earthquake and tsunami trigged a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima power plant, she joined a hunger strike and called for an end to nuclear power.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2021
He said fuel vapours may have trigged a secondary blast.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2021
He has rigged and trigged her with paint and spar, and, faith, he has faked her well— But I'd know the Stralsund's deckhouse yet from here to the booms o' Hell.
From The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling
In Washington DC, a bomb threat was made to the Democratic National Committee headquarters, trigging a police search of the building where a pipe bomb was discovered on 6 January 2021.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
The collapse in cryptocurrency prices last year forced a procession of major firms into bankruptcy, trigging a government crackdown and erasing the savings of millions of inexperienced investors.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
Some state officials are concerned that other uses also could be ruled out, trigging a provision requiring them to repay the federal government.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2021
With the capacity crowd still on its feet, Eager rifled a long-range shot past Leighton, trigging another explosion of cheers that almost blew off the roof.
From Reuters ● Jun. 1, 2010
I see you've been trigging up your room.
From The Sins of the Children A Novel by Cosmo Hamilton
