reciprocal
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Consumers watched the prices of goods like bananas rise after the onset of reciprocal tariffs, Mahoney noted, and fall only slightly after those tariffs were rescinded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Governing bodies usually have reciprocal arrangements for the home board to pick up the logistical expenses of the visiting team, including things like travel and accommodation.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The United States and China will review the lists "with a view toward providing reduced tariff treatment to those goods in a reciprocal manner," according to the terms released by the White House.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
It was a rare reciprocal relationship in an interaction otherwise distorted by fame—we loved her because she was Gloria Steinem, and she loved us because we were bright-eyed young women.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026
Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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We find the slope–intercept form of the equation, and then see if the slopes are negative reciprocals.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
We can use the fact that perpendicular lines have slopes that are negative reciprocals.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
We know that perpendicular lines have slopes that are negative reciprocals.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
We can graph by observing the graph of the cosine function because these two functions are reciprocals of one another.
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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