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pentagon

[pen-tuh-gon, -guhn] / ˈpɛn təˌgɒn, -gən /


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The top of the pentagon was Folarin Balogun, the striker who wound up scoring two of the U.S. goals.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

Hint: It’s what you get when you subtract a twogon from a pentagon.

From Slate Feb. 22, 2025

The vision involves developing human capital, the digital economy and inclusivity and sustainability, he said, referring to it as the "pentagon strategy".

From Reuters Sep. 4, 2023

They could arrange four hat tiles into a hexagonlike structure, two tiles into a pentagon and another combination of two tiles into a parallelogram.

From Scientific American Apr. 10, 2023

First, I pulled a striped green seersucker for my center pentagon, put a piece of strawberry-print cotton on the longest side, and kept going until I had my own perfectly mixed-up square.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

It's like jumping into a kaleidoscope, with constantly shifting triangles, pentagons and octagons.

From BBC May 25, 2025

This process starts with the assembly of small, triangular parts into hexagons, which subsequently join up with pentagons to form the icosahedral structures of viral capsids.

From Science Daily Apr. 4, 2024

If the loop encompasses two adjacent pentagons, then the tile returns to the starting point rotated 120 degrees.

From New York Times Jan. 1, 2023

The circles represent End Devices, and the pentagons represent Routers.

From The Verge Jul. 29, 2022

For some reason, knowledge of a solid called the dodecahedron having twelve pentagons as sides seemed to them dangerous.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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