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obliquity

[uh-blik-wi-tee, oh-blik-] / əˈblɪk wɪ ti, oʊˈblɪk- /






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It’s not a question of subtlety, which the stage can accommodate, but obliquity, which feels like an evasion of theater’s confrontational power.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021

Sweeping statements were made about genre and obliquity and readerly expectations.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2019

Over the course of some 40,000 years, Earth’s obliquity waivers between 22.1 to 24.5 degrees.

From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2019

“You could have any obliquity and you could still have habitable conditions on the surface of the planet.”

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2018

If we examine it on its anterior surface, we find a slight obliquity directed downwards and inwards.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard