diagonal
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When short options are not viable, Nyland's get-out-of-jail-free card is 6ft 5in Alexander Sorloth who Norway play on the right wing as a wide targetman for long diagonal balls.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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 chip is giant, taking up an entire 300 millimeter silicon wafer, almost a foot long across the chip’s diagonal line.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
I hitched up my skirts and cut a diagonal to meet up with them.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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For once there was a justification for Mr. Koolhaas’s sportive diagonals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Opposing diagonals of the room and the opened right-hand window meet at a pointed angle where René stands, placing him smack at the center of a jutting space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025
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
Six colors - red, black, green, pink, yellow and blue - are layered in exactly the same order, only now in horizontal stripes instead of the Netherlands-created One Love’s diagonals.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
The vanishing point of the diagonals formed by the top of the mirror and the right side of the table lies at the juncture of the woman’s little finger and the picture frame.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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