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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trig
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Lightweight Open-Front Cardigan Take a cue from Lawrence’s drapey open cardigan with this knit version, which features long sleeves, ribbed trim, and a slightly longer silhouette that hits mid-thigh on most people.Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
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The trim lighting can also be turned off via the remote.William Roberson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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It’s populated largely by white people, most of whom are grouped off into tidy nuclear families.Dan Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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All the details — the Nancy Myers beach house, the Ouija board horror house, the fairy tale castle — came from pop-culture details riddled around Billy’s impeccably tidy bedroom.Adam B. Vary, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
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In a way, this meme draws together disparate threads that have impacted the political discourse over the last few days into one neat package.Callum Booth, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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International politics are too complicated for neat binaries.Daniel DePetris, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Trig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trig. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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