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Tom Aspinall’s return to the octagon in Abu Dhabi didn’t go as planned on Saturday night, as his bout with Ciryl Gane quickly ended after an accidental poke in the eye.—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2025 This groundbreaking structure comprises eight triangular steel sections that roll up to a perfect octagon in 2-3 minutes.—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025 The film unfolds in a dreamy, meandering flow, following Mark around the world and into his home, gliding from the pressures of the octagon (where MMA athletes duke it out) to scenes of more quotidian domesticity.—Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025 What horses are to Jokic, octagons are to Jamal.—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for octagon
Word History
Etymology
Latin octagonum, from Greek oktagōnon, from okta- + -gōnon -gon
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