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• Smolla says that the case might also bring up the tangential issue of whether the paper will be required to disclose the identities of two anonymous sources who told the newspaper about the alleged relationship. —  The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
• The narrative is too tangential, and the fated players, when not schizophrenic themselves, get lost in a web of interconnectivity. —  Washington Square News RSS
• Passages become tangential, as Strebeigh winds through his miles of research with committed intensity. —  Yale Daily News: Latest Issue
• Had such a piece appeared before the Heller decision, it might have been seen as one more attempt to undermine gun owner's rights by raising a tangential issue. —  Across the Great Divide
• Light rays lying in the tangential and sagittal planes are refracted differently and both sets of rays intersect the chief ray at different image points, termed the tangential line image (tangential focal plane) and the sagittal line image (sagittal focal plane; see Figure 2).

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