oblique
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Jamaica's Oblique Seville runs a personal best of 9.77 seconds to take gold in the men's 100m final as sprint legend Usain Bolt cheers him on.
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2025
Oblique, poetic and sumptuously sung, it’s a welcome moment of Zen.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2023
This direct address, and the visual clarity of her preferred typeface, Futura Bold Oblique, were quickly appropriated by the fields Kruger sought to criticize.
From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2021
Whenever an impasse would pop up in the recording studio, Eno would draw a card from the 100-card deck game they called Oblique Strategies:
From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2020
Oblique Bridge.—A bridge accidentally out of perpendicular, either to the horizon or to the line joining the stakes.
From Croquet As played by the Newport Croquet Club by Anonymous
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