third dimension
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And I just started writing songs, and I found that it was like a third dimension, sort of “Twilight Zone”-style, that I could go to and exit my body entirely.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025
Van der Waals materials are made up of strongly bonded 2D layers that are bound in the third dimension through weaker van der Waals forces.
From Science Daily • May 1, 2024
"There is this third dimension of space which offers so much more exciting information and perspective that we tend to ignore."
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2022
Thus, intriguingly, the color is flat but the lines hint at a third dimension.
From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021
Rebuffed, unhappy at the obtuseness of the very flat, the apple bumps the square and sends him aloft, fluttering and spinning into that mysterious third dimension.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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