diagonal
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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
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
She paused before it, and then, with one violent, diagonal stroke, ripped away more than half of it and let it fall to the floor.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
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