reciprocal
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No money or guest points were exchanged, as it was reciprocal.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Traditional theories were designed for reciprocal interactions, where action and reaction are equal.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 16, 2026
Trump's decision to lower reciprocal tariffs on India earlier this year from 50% to 18% after a 10-month impasse was met with a huge sense of relief in Delhi.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
Trade teams from both countries discussed tariffs and agreed to a framework for reciprocal reductions on $30 billion in goods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Large societies can function economically only if they have a redistributive economy in addition to a reciprocal economy.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
We can use the fact that perpendicular lines have slopes that are negative reciprocals.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
These functions are the reciprocals of the first three functions.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
The next set of fundamental identities is the set of reciprocal identities, which, as their name implies, relate trigonometric functions that are reciprocals of each other.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
Perpendicular lines have slopes that are negative reciprocals of each other unless one is horizontal and the other is vertical.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
Some modifications of the machine already described will enable it to integrate squares, cubes, or products of functions, or the reciprocals of any of these.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various
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