trig
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Richardson experienced another hiker trying to physically stop him from reaching the trig point.
From BBC ● May 28, 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
“A lot of the basic trig ‘identities’ are nothing more than Pythagoras’ theorem,” explains Anderson, referring to equations that describe relationships among different trigonometric functions.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 10, 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
“I wasn’t any good at trig in high school,” Mother moaned, slamming the book shut.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
The protests were trigged by the death in mid-September of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died while being held by the morality police for violating a strictly enforced Islamic dress code.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2022
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 added columns of figures over again and scowled; his system was plainly trigged.
From When Egypt Went Broke by Holman Day
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
The trigging stick had been lost in the scuffle, and Smith's first care was to slide the door.
From The Real Man by Francis Lynde
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