pentagon
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Hint: It’s what you get when you subtract a twogon from a pentagon.
From Slate • Feb. 22, 2025
The vision involves developing human capital, the digital economy and inclusivity and sustainability, he said, referring to it as the "pentagon strategy".
From Reuters • Sep. 4, 2023
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
The bedroom is shaped like a pentagon and the sitting room with built-in shelving is the shape of a right triangle.
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2022
Connecting the corners of that pentagon with lines generates a small, upside-down, five-pointed star, which is exactly the same as the original star in its proportions.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing pentagon
Geometry - Introductory
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UCPS 6th Grade Roots List #6
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Geometry (Base List)
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