reciprocity
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This long established principle, known as reciprocity, has made it difficult for scientists to independently control how thermal energy enters and leaves a material.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
Meanwhile, interdependence is when we are two autonomous humans, relating from mutuality and reciprocity that is flowing like water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Kelly said Trump's visit would focus on "rebalancing the relationship with China and prioritizing reciprocity and fairness to restore American economic independence."
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
Burkina Faso's foreign affairs minister Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré said his government was acting on the "principle of reciprocity", while Mali's foreign ministry called for "mutual respect and sovereign equality".
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
With him came escalating demands for land and service—the veneer of reciprocity was fading.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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These kinds of resonances and reciprocities can allow a story to jump between elements without the need for novelistic bridge passages.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2014
We may live in a world of technological prowess, but we are still creatures guided by ancient reciprocities.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2012
The great American metaphysician Chuck Jones discerned some years ago that the universe operates in sequences of violent Newtonian reciprocities.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But he does not erect the happiness of others into a direct object of his own positive pursuit, beyond the reciprocities of family, citizenship, and common humanity.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander
They will look round them, and cast about for some natural, permanent, and powerful ally, with whom they may interchange all cementing reciprocities, both commercial and political.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume X (of 12) by Various
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