reciprocal
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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
Pezeshkian told the summit that if the United States returns to the deal aimed at ending months of hostilities, Iran "will immediately take reciprocal action", according to the Iranian presidency's website.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Girls tend to be more adept at mimicking social responses like eye contact and reciprocal play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Canada, for its part, on Monday announced reciprocal tariffs on U.S. goods equaling $20 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 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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The slopes are negative reciprocals of each other, so the lines are perpendicular.
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 tangent function because these two functions are reciprocals of one another.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
But of these twenty-four cross-ratios groups of four are equal, so that there are really only six different ones, and these six are reciprocals in pairs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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