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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

After the break, Bellingham's position was a lot more as a number 10 than a supporting midfielder to Anderson, which made making those diagonal runs into the space behind the pressing wing-back more viable.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 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

I spread the paste onto thick slices of bread and cut the sandwiches in half on a diagonal and put a stack of them in a plastic bag.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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

He draws a sketch so Theo can see it: “The perpendicular and horizontal lines of the frame, together with the diagonals and the cross” form a grid.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman