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 the tiling of colored dots representing where the rat was when each grid cell fired, four neighboring red dots formed the corners of a slanted rectangle known as a parallelogram.

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