parallelogram
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To build the lantern, the team began with a thin polymer sheet cut into a diamond-shaped parallelogram.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2025
For this step, in Schwartz’s 2021 paper, he incorrectly concluded that this shape was a parallelogram.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 12, 2023
Now, we have to get it square since at this point it’s probably a parallelogram, not a right rectangle!
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
In this way, the four red corners of the parallelogram become a single point on the doughnut.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 26, 2022
A child’s rubber slippers lay pigeon-toed in the bright parallelogram of barred sunlight on the floor.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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The famous Miura fold, developed by Japanese astrophysicist Kōryō Miura, folds a sheet of material into parallelograms, allowing it to fold down very compactly.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
You can also hear the shape of parallelograms and acute trapezoids, according to a 2015 paper by Rowlett and Zhiqin Lu, a mathematician at the University of California, Irvine.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2022
Those obtuse triangles she wove for that must-have pillow appear too in tender gouaches on paper, locking into gray and salmon parallelograms like the teeth of a zipper.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
They handed us a trophy as silver confetti rained down, great clouds of delicate parallelograms.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019
The drawing room which had transfixed Cecilia that morning with its parallelograms of light was now in gloom, lit by a single lamp near the fireplace.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Vocabulary lists containing parallelogram
Geometry - Introductory
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 2
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Geometry - Middle School
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