as in harmony
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a situation or relationship in which two people or groups agree to do something similar for each other; a reciprocal arrangement or relationship
The proposal calls for reciprocity in trade relations.
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Recent Examples of reciprocity
Often, it’s based on reciprocity, which means there could be a future expectation the giver will one day be the receiver.
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
The promotion also taps into reciprocity, a psychological principle where receiving something sparks the urge to give back.
—Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
During the campaign, Trump promised to sign a reciprocity bill into law.
—Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Dec. 2024
The index also attributes the ranking to Indiana having a more straightforward income tax and reciprocity agreements with states like Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
—Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 10 Dec. 2024
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
The promotion also taps into reciprocity, a psychological principle where receiving something sparks the urge to give back.
—Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
During the campaign, Trump promised to sign a reciprocity bill into law.
—Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Dec. 2024
The index also attributes the ranking to Indiana having a more straightforward income tax and reciprocity agreements with states like Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
—Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 10 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reciprocity
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The larger point being made, very much in harmony with Matthew Walker’s theory of human nightly emotional processing, is that our dreams are what Jandial calls thought experiments.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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While this may result in short-term harmony, the child will eventually end up sleep-deprived and unable to focus in class.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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Let Big Tech collaborate with these leaders to promote peace and not war, not aggressiveness but fairness.—
Laurel Dalrymple,
NPR,
18 Jan. 2025
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But the technique showed me that peace and happiness and all these positive things are really possible.—
Claire Hoffman,
Rolling Stone,
18 Jan. 2025
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This collective effort, supported by the Producers Branch of the Academy, the PGA, and the Producer Program at the Sundance Institute, also demonstrates the power of unity in our community.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2025
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But his opening week has done much to dispel the greater fear from Ukraine and its allies that Trump preferred coziness with Putin to NATO’s unity.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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In a display of mutualism underwater, the crustaceans in return clean the sponges and even breed inside them.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
14 Dec. 2024
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All the while, the solar panels stood quietly by, converting the late afternoon sun into clean energy in a display of mutualism, one that might help spare the future for the kids playing soccer nearby.—
Bill McKibben,
The New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2024
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His voice — raw, nasal, scratchy but full of passion, anger and wry wisdom — is near enough to the original to be unmistakable and yet colored by the actor’s persona to a degree that suggests something closer to symbiosis than impersonation.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Dec. 2024
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That symbiosis was the way that big cells came together.—
quantamagazine.org,
quantamagazine.org,
26 Sep. 2024
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“Reciprocity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reciprocity. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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