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 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 Episodes are family-oriented and introduce simple life lessons in a format that little kids adore. — Elisa Cinelli, Parents, 27 Sep. 2026 Prior to the release of Muse, market attention focused heavily on enterprise-grade and workflow-oriented agents, particularly coding agents. — CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026 Lashify recently partnered with WNBA team Portland Fire, and the company is exploring additional retail and service-oriented opportunities. — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026 His detail oriented self found something satisfying in creating the near-perfect pasta. — Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2026 Chiloé is where Hudsonian godwits spend their non-breeding season and express their non-breeding personality, which is intensely gregarious and food-oriented. — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026 This time around, many of the new camera features are oriented around giving the user more direct control of the image, rather than depending entirely on Apple’s computational photography assumptions. — Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026

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Sánchez's government suffered a bruising legislative defeat last week when right-wing opposition parties voted down emergency decrees introduced by his government to address evictions and real estate speculation.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
Having introduced the concept of afternoon tea to Madrid in a previous incarnation, the Ritz once again offers scones with clotted cream in the leafy Palm Court.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 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

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