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The first-round knockout was a jarring return to the octagon.—Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 21 June 2025 General view of the UFC 238 octagon at United Center on June 8, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois.—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 June 2025 Musk has been high-profile guest for some of Trump's previous visits to the octagon, but the pair had a public falling-out this week after Musk's departure from the Trump administration.—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 7 June 2025 Its dish was made up of shiny panels assembled into an octagon.—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 28 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for octagon
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Etymology
Latin octagonum, from Greek oktagōnon, from okta- + -gōnon -gon
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