oblique
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Jamaica's Oblique Seville claimed a stunning victory in the men's 100m, obliterating a line-up featuring Olympic champion Noah Lyles by finishing in 9.86 secs.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025
Oblique, poetic and sumptuously sung, it’s a welcome moment of Zen.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2023
This direct address, and the visual clarity of her preferred typeface, Futura Bold Oblique, were quickly appropriated by the fields Kruger sought to criticize.
From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2021
If creativity is connecting disparate dots, Oblique Strategies is a gift box full of dots.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2020
Oblique tractions can always be resolved, by the vector law, into normal and tangential tractions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing oblique
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