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diagonal

[dahy-ag-uh-nl, -ag-nl] / daɪˈæg ə nl, -ˈæg nl /
ADJECTIVE
having an oblique direction
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
WEAK
askew beveled cater-corner cater-cornered catercorner catty-cornered kitty-corner kitty-cornered skewing slanting transversal transverse


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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

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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