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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Even the tangential characters are wittily drawn.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Mona, Seth and Barbara make up the main focus of the book, but even the tangential characters are wittily drawn.
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On the left-hand sides are the well-known expressions for the radial and tangential components of acceleration.
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The Cartesian coordinates which result from this transformation describe a space which is tangential to the curved space at the point selected.
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There are two reasons for giving them only the most tangential treatment here.
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These are male-dominated arenas; women have historically been tangential to them.
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When this is augmented by oddly tangential keyboard sounds it's an enjoyable little maelstrom to be caught up in.