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in a way that involves mutual exchange, benefit, or action between two parties
- The university and the local schools work reciprocally to support education.
- Power and responsibility must be shared reciprocally in a democracy.
- The mentor and mentee benefited reciprocally from their relationship.
- The agreement was designed to operate reciprocally across borders.
- Students and teachers should engage reciprocally in the learning process.
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in a way where one thing changes in inverse relation to another
- Pressure and volume are reciprocally related in Boyle's Law.
- The two variables changed reciprocally over time.
- Speed and time are reciprocally connected when distance is fixed.
- Economic supply and demand can shift reciprocally.
- In physics, force and displacement sometimes interact reciprocally under certain conditions.
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