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
He has, also, ingeniously arranged his horizontal, vertical and diagonal vectors within a gigantic, symbolic, circular frame.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Giant anteaters have black and white diagonal stripes, dense shaggy hair and super-sized snouts.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
I killed my first game, a beautiful tawny beast with curved horns and a black diagonal stripe across his flank: a young male impala.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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