Thesaurus results for ORIENTED

oriented

verb

Definition of oriented

past tense of orient

as in introduced

to impart knowledge of a new thing or situation to a training program to orient new employees to the requirements and dimensions of the job

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Recent Examples of oriented Businesses are oriented around customer retention, and a 5% increase in customer retention can have exponential values in terms of long-tail capital. — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026 The same study found that authentic leadership, oriented toward organizational benefit rather than personal positioning, directly offset that defensive pattern. — Aurelien Mangano, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026 Many states already have state-level tax credits focused on helping families pay for private school, and very few of the SGOs that are already up and running are public school-oriented. — Cory Turner, NPR, 20 Oct. 2026 Foran has a reputation for being tech-savvy and detail-oriented. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 Their collaboration carries significance as women working together in a category long oriented toward men. — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026 Perrette also has experience with the blocking and tackling of things like password sharing and other lucrative but detail-oriented operational tasks. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026 Even the title track feels very different from traditional pop production, leaning into something more playful and club-oriented. — Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2026 The global defense architecture is still oriented toward a Cold War–era industrial model. — Dan Driscoll, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026

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The government also promised 15,000 additional places in higher education, introduced across the next two years, and increases in student grants linked to inflation from the start of the next academic year.

— Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Government bond investors want cuts to public spending, less borrowing and business-friendly measures aimed at boosting growth, such as reversing some of the payroll tax increases introduced under Reeves.

— Ian King, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026

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The Perseid meteor shower orientated from the Comet Swift-Tuttle, which was discovered by American astronomers Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle in 1862, according to NASA.

— Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2026
In contrast to this, in regions dominated by shock waves, magnetic fields are orientated at tangents.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 July 2026

Definition of orientated

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He was educated at Middlebury College, and lived in New York City for 15 years, before settling back on the farm with his wife, Olga, and their children, Fiona and Abraham.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Of that cohort, CSET found that 70 percent were foreign-born or foreign- educated.

— Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026

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