oblique

Chicago Cubs: Shortstop and team leader Dansby Swanson will be welcomed back after missing a month with a left oblique injury.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Mostly, though, the film is oblique commentary on the kinds of issues the columnists are always writing about—a perceived loss of societal trust, demonization of out-groups, and increased geographical sorting by ideology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

In other injury-related updates, Kiké Hernández was activated Tuesday after being out since May 26 with a grade 3 oblique strain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Though many critics and historians have tried, it’s impossible to get to the true root of a work as oblique as “Possession.”

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

He saw a cow swimming slowly towards the fill in an oblique line.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

Tuesday, he said he felt much better, focusing on his core and obliques.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

For just $2,599, this sleek and sturdy item offers users plate-loaded core training in a seated position, and a swivel seat to easily transition to targeting your obliques.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2023

You won’t catch me crunching to sculpt my obliques – I’m happy just being abnormal.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022

“You never know with obliques but I don’t think it’s as bad as we thought it would be,” manager Charlie Montoyo said before the Blue Jays concluded a four-game series at Yankee Stadium.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

On the whole, then, it is proved that the obliques are extended on turning the eyes inwards, but shortened on turning the eyes outwards by means of their muscular action.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by C. Schweigger

In doing this we obliqued to the southwest to escape a heavy fire now reaching us from the north and the quicker to get protection from the rolling ground.

From A Historic Sketch Lest We Forget Company E 26th Ohio Infantry by Walden Kelly

On observing this convergence of his silent and persevering pursuers, Costal suddenly obliqued to the right.

From The Tiger Hunter by Mayne Reid

That gallant soldier threw his men on the exposed flank of the column which had obliqued, bent to the right.

From The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo by Cyrus Townsend Brady

The 21st seemed to have obliqued to the left of the 51st.

From Personal Recollections of the Civil War By One Who Took Part in It as a Private Soldier in the 21st Volunteer Regiment of Infantry from Massachusetts by James Madison Stone

The lawyers and henchmen obliqued off to the sides.

From Space Viking by H. Beam Piper

When my brigade had moved far around upon the left, and had taken position, obliquing toward the enemy's rear, it suddenly opened.

From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Basil Wilson Duke

They keep Canal, obliquing to that side of the way farthest from the balconies-- "To make room," cries Victorine, "to form line pritty soon off horses, in front those cannon'."

From Kincaid's Battery by Alonzo Kimball

In this way I should rise by steps, as it were, obliquing always in the direction of the hatchway.

From The Boy Tar by Edward Read

If at halfstep or mark time while obliquing, the oblique march is resumed by the commands: 1.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

The path was but a ledge, which, after running fifty yards in a direct line, made an abrupt double back in the opposite direction, all the while obliquing downwards.

From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid