polygon
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We wander back wet, down to Castillo Square, down to the ghosts of Bar Milano, a stand-in for Bar Torino, and Café Suizo, where the fiesta unravels in insults, a love polygon and fisticuffs.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
A love triangle stretches to encompass more people and form a shifting polygon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
County emergency management worker saved an alert correctly with a narrowly defined polygon in the area near the Kenneth fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025
By 2021, the investigators had been able to shrink the polygon so that it covered only several hundred homes.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
The huge cypress trees she and her father pass on their morning walk are shimmering kaleidoscopes, each needle a polygon of light.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Researchers are now studying how ice wedge polygons, a common Arctic landscape feature, influence how water and carbon move toward coastal areas.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2026
Vast polygons mark forest concessions covering 11 million hectares in the DRC, some of which exist only on paper.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
The interface showed purple cow icons confined within red polygons — virtual fences that shock the cattle via collars should they stray.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
But on rare occasions, designers choose to build their interactive worlds not from pixels and polygons but from physical materials like cardboard and clay.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
There were known to be five regular or “platonic” solids, whose sides were regular polygons, as known to the ancient Greek mathematicians after the time of Pythagoras.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Vocabulary lists containing polygon
Geometry - Introductory
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2015 Spelling Bee - Words from Round 2
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 2
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