alignment
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Just because a voter cast a ballot for a Democrat or Republican in the primary doesn’t mean they will back another candidate of the same party or partisan alignment in the general, experts said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
A single supermassive black hole can dramatically magnify a background star, but only when the alignment is almost perfect.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
In the subprime mortgage market, the alignment between the person making the loan and the person bearing the risk was completely severed.
From Barron's • May 30, 2026
So the decision to do nothing about the deflation was not a case of ignorance or vacillation, as Mr. Ahamed contends, but of alignment with long-established monetary norms.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
“Patrick Moore told viewers that they could experience the phenomenon by jumping in the air at the exact moment the alignment occurred. If they did, they would feel weightless, like they were floating.”
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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