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  • noun Plural form of orientation.

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Examples

  • There has been a lot of sitting in orientations this week, which would be good for sock knitting if I were more organized.

    2007 August « Compulsive Knitter 2007

  • There has been a lot of sitting in orientations this week, which would be good for sock knitting if I were more organized.

    I’m a sockapalooza bum… « Compulsive Knitter 2007

  • There has been a lot of sitting in orientations this week, which would be good for sock knitting if I were more organized.

    2007 August 23 « Compulsive Knitter 2007

  • At the beginning of September, although I'll be in orientations and meetings the last week in August.

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

  • At the beginning of September, although I'll be in orientations and meetings the last week in August.

    Answers 2006

  • Not speaking as anything but a donor to CRF, and being in no other way associated with it, CRF appears to be made up of many people of a variety of races, religions, backgrounds, socio-economic statuses, and, yes sexual orientations, that is narrowly focused on only one goal: repeal of a divisive part of the city's charter.

    Gays Stab Another Group In The Back Nathaniel Livingston 2004

  • At the same time, the low temperature group at the University of Florida also discovered these resonances, but because we cooled our samples by adiabatic nuclear demagnetization of copper rather than Pomeranchuk cooling, only we were able to form and study single crystals, and could thus identify the allowed magnetic domain orientations.

    Douglas D. Osheroff - Autobiography 1997

  • But many colleges report that well over half their freshmen have family in attendance at these events, and lots of parents think the orientations are the greatest thing since "What To Expect When You're Expecting."

    KVIA.com - Local News 2010

  • In short, what people do with their bodies is a moral choice they make, regardless of any predispositions, attractions, or so called orientations they use to excuse and justify their sexual behavior.

    MoJo Blogs and Articles 2009

  • In that sense, their very "orientations" for want of a better word are diametrically opposed.

    Archive 2009-03-15 2009

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