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• It's subtle, but if you rotate the sunglasses clockwise and counterclockwise, and you keep looking, you will see it This yellow bowtie is called Haidinger's brush and it is how human eyes see polarized light. —  FSF,September2007
• If her neck was broken by a single blow to her right temple, then her head rotated a little, counterclockwise, which means the punch was thrown by a left-hander. —  One Shot by Lee Child
• The hard impenetrable darkness of his aura swirled once, counterclockwise, brushed against my aura's sparkling. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 1] - Working for the Devil
• A swirl of air started, counterclockwise, the chicken's body still scrabbling mindlessly. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 1] - Working for the Devil
• If the electric vector corkscrews through space in a counterclockwise or clockwise direction, as viewed from the front, the light is said to be right or left circularly polarized. —  AnalogSFF,December2007

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