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axis

[ak-sis] / ˈæk sɪs /


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And this presented a long axis, and I tried to follow it.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

A revised scheme might do several things at once: minimize the visual impact on the executive residence itself, decrease the addition’s height, and shrink its footprint to preserve the axis to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

What makes this especially frustrating from a neuroscience perspective is that the gut-brain axis is one of the most pharmacologically sensitive systems in the body.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026

One of the team's most important achievements was establishing the neutral axis purely from the geometry of the color metric.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

The world must be spinning off its axis.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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