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Six example sentences with orthogonal, each labelled with its topic.
The investor cut him off, saying the founder's hiring plan was orthogonal to the question of whether customers renewed.
Startups
Whether the app looks dated is orthogonal to the outage, so the engineers kept the review focused on database timeouts.
Technology
Counsel objected that the witness's political views were entirely orthogonal to the contract dispute the jury had to settle.
Law
Whether the argument is elegant is orthogonal to whether it is sound, and the seminar kept confusing the two.
Philosophy
The consultant noted that the office redesign was orthogonal to the sales slump, which came from a pricing change.
Business
The senator's personal popularity was orthogonal to the bill's chances, since the vote turned entirely on the funding formula.
Politics
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