How to Use two-dimensional in a Sentence
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That’s what makes the surface two-dimensional – length and width.
—Rob Coyne, Space.com, 13 July 2025
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And even with such data, the view would remain two-dimensional.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
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The combat against signs of aging is no longer seen as a two-dimensional battle.
—Tanya Akim, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
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The cameras measure balls and strikes from a two-dimensional plane set in the middle of home plate.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
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The tiered wooden frame adds depth to the flat piece of glass, keeping this piece from looking two-dimensional.
—Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 12 Jan. 2026
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Imagine living in a two-dimensional world, like a sheet of paper.
—Madison Dapcevich, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2025
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When the tiny threads are closed and move through spacetime in a wobbly manner, their track forms a two-dimensional tube.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2024
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Neutral-atom arrays can be a two-dimensional grid, which is much easier to scale up.
—Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
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As lidars slim down and scale up, the days of pure two-dimensional image sensing seem numbered.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Apr. 2022
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This has already been proven to work with two-dimensional wallpaper.
—Katharina Kotrba, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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Many years of trial and error have revealed that such wide swaths are best applied while the map is still two-dimensional.
—Tom Weijand, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2024
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Most retail platforms were built for flat, two-dimensional data.
—Alexandre De Vigan, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
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These define a two-dimensional subspace — a flat plane parallel to the floor.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
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De Stijl’s ideas about art began with two-dimensional forms like painting.
—JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2025
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By contrast, ZuriQ has found a way to build two-dimensional structures.
—David Prosser, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
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In one perspective, physicists see a two-dimensional universe that is flat.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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For example, a two-dimensional cross-section of a nautilus shell shows shapes with curved boundaries and two cusps.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024
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Gomez’s pinstriped suit was cut and tailored to keep the stripes linear and almost two-dimensional on the actor’s round body.
—Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
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Technically, the new strike zone is a two-dimensional plane rising from home plate’s midpoint.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 21 Feb. 2026
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One of those is a neat feature that will create 3D images from two-dimensional inputs or text.
—John Werner, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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This level of detail had not been achieved with earlier two-dimensional models.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026
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But that is mostly a two-dimensional effect, the product of extruding the building’s stack of floor plates.
—Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 3 May 2023
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Everybody’s trying to make this jump from a two-dimensional, static image on page to live action, and some things have to change.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023
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But that would be possible only because the lattice on the paper is two-dimensional.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
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The set stayed two-dimensional, flat, a place observed but never inhabited.
—Tim Requarth, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2026
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The flourishes may be two-dimensional, but because of them, the car looks just like one Arsham’s sculptures.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 Apr. 2023
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Now, Gorman says, the team can design a quantum twin for almost any two-dimensional problem.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2026
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The new emblem is darker and more two-dimensional than the chrome badge seen on current Genesis models.
—Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 6 Apr. 2023
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This special extra layer is a semiconductor sheet stamped with a two-dimensional array of nanoscale holes.
—Susumu Noda, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2024
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Now, that two-dimensional rectangle is in the middle of the plate, 8½ inches closer to the catcher.
—Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 25 Feb. 2026
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