pentagon

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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

EUR’s boundaries were marked off in a near-perfect pentagon.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2021

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