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orients

verb

present tense third-person singular of orient

as in introduces

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 orients Amerasu is Black and trans, an orientation to the world that orients her art. — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025 The gene encodes a protein that normally orients and aligns cells in the stomach; without it, the cells become lopsided, rogue, and possibly cancerous. — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026 When that responsibility is abdicated or abused, the system orients itself around avoidance and silence. — Jon Duffy, Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2026 Fixing our sights on God orients our view to the reality and order of divine Principle and brings out God’s abundant and unchangeable good in our lives. — Michelle Boccanfuso Nanouche, Christian Science Monitor, 28 May 2025 Bourla confirmed that Pfizer now orients more than 40% of its annual R&D spend toward oncology. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2026 The disarmament thus takes place as an ecological project, one that situates AI within the broad sweep of human culture and that orients it towards human flourishing, not toward warfare, monopolistic power, or new inequalities. — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 25 May 2026

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Artificial intelligence now introduces a different challenge by demonstrating that many traditional legal tasks can be performed faster and more efficiently by machines.

— Joseph Andrew, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
For coffee drinkers, the program introduces 52 distinct flavor releases over the course of the year.

— Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 1 July 2026

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On the continent is an elite war college that educates healers, soldiers, scribes, and — most famously — dragon riders.

— Janey Wetzel, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
Texas, which educates roughly 1 in 10 of the nation's public school students, has been at the forefront of a charge by conservatives to incorporate more religion into classrooms.

— JAMIE STENGLE, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2026

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