obliquities
- plural of obliquity.
Example Sentences
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It has also long caused astronomers to wonder whether Earth’s tilt — arguably a sweet spot between more extreme obliquities — helped create the conditions necessary for life.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
“Large obliquities make stronger tides, and tides make the planet move,” Millholland says.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2019
Interactions with other objects over their lifetimes can change their obliquities, tilting them over slightly or tremendously.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2019
For years now he had been compelled to face her obliquities, to puzzle over the enigma of her ultimate character, and he was tired of it all.
From Never-Fail Blake by Stringer, Arthur
Most of the jars and bickerings of domestic life, most of the mental and moral obliquities, depend upon threadbare nerves, either inherited or uncovered by friction incident to getting on in the world.
From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams
