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placed two strips of pimiento diagonally on each deviled egg
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Some remind me of Piranesi’s imaginary prisons with their multilevel interiors diagonally slashed by staircases and shafts of sunlight, their ambiguous atmosphere quivering with both horror and exhilaration.
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2024
The plotting initially ended up taking the duo diagonally across Wyoming, for example, with virtually no paved roads.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
Soon, this new community developed vibrant commercial corridors along North Avenue, Vliet Street and Lisbon Avenue, which runs diagonally through the neighborhood.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024
As a teenager, in 1972, Schütte twice visited Documenta IX, Harald Szeemann’s sprawling exhibition in Kassel that featured, among many other artworks, a Richard Serra sculpture composed of four 24-foot-long steel plates, each extending diagonally toward the center of a room from its walls.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2024
The plotting initially ended up taking the duo diagonally across Wyoming, for example, with virtually no paved roads.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
Soon, this new community developed vibrant commercial corridors along North Avenue, Vliet Street and Lisbon Avenue, which runs diagonally through the neighborhood.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024
As a teenager, in 1972, Schütte twice visited Documenta IX, Harald Szeemann’s sprawling exhibition in Kassel that featured, among many other artworks, a Richard Serra sculpture composed of four 24-foot-long steel plates, each extending diagonally toward the center of a room from its walls.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Diagonally.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diagonally. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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