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Example sentences for: oblique

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On the morning of 9 September 1990, in a report on the Bush-Gorbachov meeting in Helsinki, a reporter on CNN (the US Cable News Network) referred to the conference using a term that could only be spelled “tête-à-thé,” which might have been some strange metaphor meaning `head in the tea'; or perhaps it was an oblique reference to China or to hocking a tchainik `gossiping.
The following clustering algorithms were used: seven hierarchical clustering methods (single linkage, average linkage, complete linkage, Ward's minimum variance, density linkage, centroid, and flexible-beta), a k-mean method, and an oblique principle component method employing either (1) Pearson correlation or (2) Spearman correlation based on rank.
Yesterday the NYT charted its own course and ignored Jiang's oblique remark at Harvard about "mistakes" his government has made.
Thomas in The White Hotel , charts an oblique course as far as historical engagement is concerned (though Thomas cuts loose in his shocking denouement).
The relative brevity of many Russian proverbs stems from the fact that the Russian language has no articles and also resorts idiomatically to participial condensation by not using oblique forms of the verb to be .