Sample Sentences for
reciprocal
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reciprocal as in:  reciprocal trade

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    There is a reciprocal understanding that neither side would speak of the past.
    reciprocal = mutual
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    There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.  (source)
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    Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement.  (source)
    reciprocal = balanced (interchanged equivalence)
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    Her gray sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming, discontented face.  (source)
    reciprocal = mutual (each influencing the other)
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    It was highly likely that the serpent of sin that nosed about the chambers of my heart was lashed to hunger by hymns as well as dreams, each reciprocally feeding the other.†  (source)
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    The principle of reciprocality seems to require that its obligation on the other States should be reduced to the same standard.†  (source)
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    But unfortunately' she said, with an attempt at a reciprocal smile that made her look as though she had lockjaw, 'it is what I think that counts, as they are in my House, Dolores.'  (source)
    reciprocal = shared
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    My sister is in the garden plucking the dead roses; my brother is reading his two papers, the Presse and the Debats, within six steps of her; for wherever you see Madame Herbault, you have only to look within a circle of four yards and you will find M. Emmanuel, and 'reciprocally,' as they say at the Polytechnic School.†  (source)
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    "I love you." I wait, barely able to breathe. "I know, and I know how lucky that makes me." I want to ... demand a reciprocal declaration.  (source)
    reciprocal = equivalent
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    (He takes SIEBEL by the nose: the others do the same reciprocally, and raise their knives.)†  (source)
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    The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes.  (source)
    reciprocal = mutual (checking each other)
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    D'Artagnan at the moment of quitting Milady felt only the liveliest regret at the parting; and as they addressed each other in a reciprocally passionate adieu, another interview was arranged for the following week.†  (source)
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    For obligations were palpable, soundly rooted in reciprocal deeds; possibilities on the other hand were chimeras, flimsy and worthless, dangerous even.†  (source)
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reciprocal as in:  reciprocal numbers

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    The reciprocal ratio of 1:5 is 5:1.
    reciprocal = inversely related
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    To divide by a fraction, multiply by its reciprocal, e.g., multiply by 1/5 instead of dividing by 5.
    reciprocal = number that gives 1 when multiplied
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    Reciprocal bearing, transcription error, something like that.  (source)
    Reciprocal = directly opposite
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    Every night for a month I sat in the opera house, in a chair of red velvet, and practiced the most basic operations—how to multiply fractions, how to use a reciprocal, how to add and multiply and divide with decimals—while on the stage, characters recited their lines.  (source)
    reciprocal = inversely related
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    Now he was on a reciprocal heading at five knots, about the top speed the Alfa could travel without making much noise.  (source)
    reciprocal = directly opposite (of the original heading)
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