hexagon
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Researchers will continue monitoring Saturn to see whether the southern decagon becomes a stable, long-lived feature like the northern hexagon or keeps changing.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
The fighters will use 4-ounce gloves and will face off inside a hexagon cage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
Winds whip around this hexagon at 300 miles per hour, but why the region forms the shape is a mystery.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
The French sometimes refer to their country as “L’Hexagone” — the hexagon — because of its shape.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
I’m about to crawl into my cell when a body with long black hair sits up inside my hexagon.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
The scoreboards in Ontario, he said, are planned as hexagons — just like the ones at Dodger Stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2024
This process starts with the assembly of small, triangular parts into hexagons, which subsequently join up with pentagons to form the icosahedral structures of viral capsids.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 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
Shaped like circles, diamonds, hexagons, and interlocking rectangles, the earthworks are three to nine hundred feet in diameter and outlined by trenches up to twenty feet deep.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing hexagon
Geometry - Introductory
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 2
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Geometry - Middle School
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