hexagon

The fighters will use 4-ounce gloves and will face off inside a hexagon cage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

Not only do they offer high-quality, fresh, organic spices, but their magnetic hexagon jars are beautiful to display.

From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024

Stripped of their brown paint and polished, each fragment will weigh 18 grams, or just over half an ounce, and be fashioned into a hexagon — the shape of France.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

In 1975 he conjectured that the optimal packing of n circles is an arrangement in a triangular lattice that forms the shape of a hexagon that is as regular as possible.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 6, 2023

We reach the first barrier, which is like the barriers blocking off roadworks, or dug-up sewers: a wooden crisscross painted in yellow and black stripes, a red hexagon which means Stop.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

The scoreboards in Ontario, he said, are planned as hexagons — just like the ones at Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2024

For instance, hexagons appear frequently in nature -- think honeycombs and insect eyes -- because they are stable and require the least amount of material to cover a surface.

From Science Daily ● May 16, 2024

Ridges of radiating lines that are designed to reflect light, a nod to Paris’ nickname as the City of Light, surround the hexagons.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

At the Richmond, California, plant of the company Coherent, an assembly line is polishing three 1.5-meter mirrors each month before trimming them into hexagons.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 17, 2023

I told her the way they created hexagons, they must be the ones who could do math in their heads, and she smiled and said, yes, nest builders had true math aptitude.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd