parallelogram

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Indoors, cold moonlight fell in bright parallelograms on household floors, while outdoors, fence posts cast their stark shadows on the ground.

From Washington Post

Fold the upper left corner to the edge and tuck it under the right section, creating a parallelogram with two pockets.

From New York Times

The company plans to replace the familiar checkmark badge with a muted gray parallelogram banner whose meaning could not be less clear.

From The Verge

A cake might outwardly be inspired by Miura-ori, an origami fold involving a zigzag series of parallelograms, adapted in the 1970s by a Japanese astrophysicist for the deployment of solar panels on space satellites.

From New York Times

Most often, the artist’s parallelograms appear to gush horizontally, suggesting movement off or beyond the canvas.

From Washington Post