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
They could arrange four hat tiles into a hexagonlike structure, two tiles into a pentagon and another combination of two tiles into a parallelogram.
From Scientific American • Apr. 10, 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
So topologists identified all the red dots, folding the parallelogram into a doughnut shape using an operation they refer to as “gluing.”
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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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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