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hexagon

[hek-suh-gon, -guhn] / ˈhɛk səˌgɒn, -gən /


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The fighters will use 4-ounce gloves and will face off inside a hexagon cage.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 17, 2026

Not only do they offer high-quality, fresh, organic spices, but their magnetic hexagon jars are beautiful to display.

From Salon Dec. 17, 2024

The French sometimes refer to their country as “L’Hexagone” — the hexagon — because of its shape.

From Seattle Times Feb. 8, 2024

In 1975 he conjectured that the optimal packing of n circles is an arrangement in a triangular lattice that forms the shape of a hexagon that is as regular as possible.

From Scientific American Jun. 6, 2023

I’m about to crawl into my cell when a body with long black hair sits up inside my hexagon.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

The scoreboards in Ontario, he said, are planned as hexagons — just like the ones at Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2024

Ridges of radiating lines that are designed to reflect light, a nod to Paris’ nickname as the City of Light, surround the hexagons.

From New York Times Feb. 8, 2024

Turing's theory alone would not be able to explain the sharp outlines of these hexagons, he thought.

From Science Daily Nov. 8, 2023

At the Richmond, California, plant of the company Coherent, an assembly line is polishing three 1.5-meter mirrors each month before trimming them into hexagons.

From Science Magazine Oct. 17, 2023

He could no longer recall what the sky looked like through hexagons of cage wire.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker




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