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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

Tacit reciprocities of misunderstanding ensuing, he felt it safest to say:—"Nothing wrong, I hope?"

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

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