as in trim
being clean and in good order
to the office she wears trig two-piece suits that are fashionable but still businesslike
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Recent Examples of trig
If your trig is hazy, just remember that all trig functions tell us about the ratio of sides for right triangles.
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Rhett Allain, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
Any student who is not interested in seeing a drag queen, or whose parents forbid them from seeing one, or who believes Lady Gaga songs are played out, or has too much trig to make up, can skip the event.
—Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
By using the Law of Sines, and avoiding the Pythagorean theorem’s trig identity (sin²α + cos²α = 1), Johnson and Jackson successfully proved the theorem without resorting to circular reasoning.
—Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
The oldest way is to just look them up in a trig table.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 14 Mar. 2022
Rhett Allain, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
Any student who is not interested in seeing a drag queen, or whose parents forbid them from seeing one, or who believes Lady Gaga songs are played out, or has too much trig to make up, can skip the event.
—Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
By using the Law of Sines, and avoiding the Pythagorean theorem’s trig identity (sin²α + cos²α = 1), Johnson and Jackson successfully proved the theorem without resorting to circular reasoning.
—Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
The oldest way is to just look them up in a trig table.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 14 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trig
Adjective
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Her daughter, 33, also wore a look from the McQueen spring/summer 2025 collection, featuring a black vest with white pleated chiffon trim.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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Her eyewear was usually cushioned by her coiffed blonde hair; her beauty aesthetic built intentionally around ‘notes on bangs’: From side-swept to feathery wisps, thick curtains, and a pixie fringed trim.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
1 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Two goals on his MLS debut against Montreal was a tidy start.—
Phil Hay,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
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There were three fights in the first nine seconds, tidy one-on-one bouts.—
Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Twist in a neat midi knot or pin in a looser twist for a personalized style.—
Calin Van Paris,
Vogue,
18 Feb. 2025
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But the neatest summation is probably that Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen are returning to their natural places in the Bundesliga.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Trig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trig. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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