pentagon
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The top of the pentagon was Folarin Balogun, the striker who wound up scoring two of the U.S. goals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Hint: It’s what you get when you subtract a twogon from a pentagon.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2025
The vision involves developing human capital, the digital economy and inclusivity and sustainability, he said, referring to it as the "pentagon strategy".
From Reuters ● Sep. 4, 2023
They could arrange four hat tiles into a hexagonlike structure, two tiles into a pentagon and another combination of two tiles into a parallelogram.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 10, 2023
In the middle of the room five display cases form a pentagon.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
It's like jumping into a kaleidoscope, with constantly shifting triangles, pentagons and octagons.
From BBC ● May 25, 2025
This process starts with the assembly of small, triangular parts into hexagons, which subsequently join up with pentagons to form the icosahedral structures of viral capsids.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024
If the loop encompasses two adjacent pentagons, then the tile returns to the starting point rotated 120 degrees.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
The circles represent End Devices, and the pentagons represent Routers.
From The Verge ● Jul. 29, 2022
His penchant was for textured synthetic fabrics, often featuring some geometric design like diamonds or pentagons.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
Vocabulary lists containing pentagon
Geometry - Introductory
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UCPS 6th Grade Roots List #6
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Geometry (Base List)
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