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

EUR’s boundaries were marked off in a near-perfect pentagon.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2021

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