diagonal
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They are posed dashingly on the diagonal, the German dog, ears pricked, stacked as if in the show ring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Bellingham left his right central midfield position to make the diagonal run in behind DR Congo's right-back when Rashford got the ball - the same pattern that resulted in goals for England against Panama.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Walking in these diagonal directions, as well as 5 feet in the straight compass directions, shows that many pairs of dots on this giant chessboard are exactly 5 feet apart.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
SpotGamma explains that a put diagonal spread combines the sale of a shorter-dated put with the purchase of a longer-dated put at a different strike price.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
The side of the square gets 12 million bits, and the diagonal gets a tad less than 16,970,563 bits.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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For once there was a justification for Mr. Koolhaas’s sportive diagonals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
He will sit deep when required and push high when he can; will play neat possession football in some fixtures and tell his players to hit longer diagonals out to the wide men in others.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024
The result is a strikingly fantastical depiction of the city now known as Beijing, using, Hockney added, “harsh edges, strong diagonals, mad perspectives.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
With the help of a local sign painter, she spent three days creating enormous spatial illusions: bold diagonals, circles, arrows, letters and blocks of bull’s-eye colors.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2024
The two diagonals of the words “tres important” and “faire suivre” meet on the envelope at a point, an arrowhead—giving an impression of flight, purpose, urgency—or an impending wound.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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