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
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 evaluating the composition of a trigonometric function with an inverse trigonometric function, you may use trig identities to assist in determining the ratio of sides.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
Mr. D’Ulney said that maybe, by the end of the school year, he’d throw a little trig at him.
From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt
The massive floods were trigged by a cloudburst over a mountain lake this week.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2023
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
Keselowski trigged three multicar wrecks, including one just past the start-finish line on the last lap, and came home ninth.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 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
And here she's trigged out in her graduating clothes.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana
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 Hamilton, Cosmo
