diagonal
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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
A different method of using diagonal play to attack was witnessed in Ecuador's loss to Ivory Coast.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 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
A fastback design calls for a roughly diagonal profile and backlight glass sloping from the trailing edge of the roofline to the deck lid, a feature nowhere in sight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
Using the same yardstick, we see that the diagonal gets...well, almost 34 segments, but it doesn’t come out quite evenly.
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
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
I watch the droplets slide in tapering diagonals across the window.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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