symmetrical
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These capabilities can make a difference when surface combat between navies of similar standing is "symmetrical, with radars and missiles of roughly equivalent range".
From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026
"I'd be compulsively applying it, taking it off, reapplying it, taking it off again - trying to get it as symmetrical and perfect as possible."
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
The patterns visible in Hubble's image are highly symmetrical, ruling out a chaotic explosion like a supernova.
From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2026
Covered in fractal patterns like “the symmetrical innards of a halved cabbage,” the giant humanoid insect reclines, “a god-sized man sleeping atop the quilt of the land.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
These thoughts were as familiar to her, and as comforting, as the precise configuration of her knees, their matching but competing, symmetrical and reversible, look.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing symmetrical
Geometry - Introductory
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myPerspectives 8.4
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Statistics and Probability - Middle School
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