diagonal
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Ms. Stevens, who spent the campaign avoiding the subject of Mr. El-Sayed’s not-quite-spoken animus, last week ventured a diagonal allusion to it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
Kane's diagonal run remains fairly central, and his relative lack of pace compared to Bellingham makes him less suited to exploiting this space.
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
For a square of size one, this means that we cannot choose counting numbers a and b such that the diagonal of the square can be expressed as a/b.
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
Buffalo trails crossed the human trail on diagonals.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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