diagonal
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The chip is giant, taking up an entire 300 millimeter silicon wafer, almost a foot long across the chip’s diagonal line.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
Downtown Los Angeles’ street grid is diagonal, a legacy of Spanish rule.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
Rubens leads our eye along diagonal lines from the ground to the sky, from the close-at-hand to the faraway, incrementally.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
"My work presents a new three-dimensional model for the magnetic field reversal. From Earth, this would appear as the diagonal that we observe in the data," Booth explains.
From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026
I hitched up my skirts and cut a diagonal to meet up with them.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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