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respective

[ri-spek-tiv] / rɪˈspɛk tɪv /


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Both were soldiers who had gone on to provide unsurpassed political leadership of their respective countries, and both were possessed of exceptional physical and moral courage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

After successful offensive plays, or defense stops, the respective winning units would often swarm the drill area with cheers, briefly, before moving onto the next rep.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

Zulmi was buried in a military cemetery in his hometown in Bandung, West Java, while Ichwan and Farizal were laid to rest in their respective hometowns in Central Java and Yogyakarta.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

Usually it was your management record, and your relative success with the respective budgets you'd been given, that would seal the deal.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The atom, the byte, and the gene provide fundamentally new scientific and technological understandings of their respective systems.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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