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angled

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verb

past tense of angle
as in tilted
to set or cause to be at an angle angle the camera this way and the Leaning Tower of Pisa will look straight

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Recent Examples of angled
Adjective
For those who prefer a non-electric option, residential cleaning specialist Valentina Rios recommends tile scrubbers with angled or triangular heads. Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026 Their angled footbeds provide comfortable arch support while maintaining a slim, classic silhouette. Annie Blackman, InStyle, 8 July 2026 As for the church’s parking concerns, the city at the time agreed to construct at least 10 angled parking spaces along the church. Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2026 What's more, the pot can be kept indoors or outside, and given the angled shape of the Helix, multiple units can slot together to form a larger system of multiple pots and plants. New Atlas, 2 July 2026 Its 70mm heel narrowed through the center before flaring into an angled base, creating a more sculptural profile than a straight kitten heel. Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 30 June 2026 One petition was handwritten, laying out his logic in angled handwriting across lined notebook paper. Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 30 June 2026 In the Victoria Room, a centerpiece of kaleidoscopes and angled mirrors creates a shifting, disorienting effect that echoes Alice’s world, surrounded by lush seasonal plantings. Gabby Sartori, USA Today, 25 June 2026 This angled cut will keep your hair swinging free. Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
Verb
Cascading waterfall spouts that line the middle of the pool, meantime, are specially angled to target stress points on your body. Tim Chan, HollywoodReporter, 12 July 2026 Most systems rely on horizontal or angled training to promote lateral growth of flowering stems. Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 July 2026 Thiero angled himself into the paint with a drive after a side screen from point guard William Hickey, drawing a switch from Thunder forward Buddy Boeheim while Mara instinctively sunk into the paint. Law Murray, New York Times, 11 July 2026 The weeklong preliminary hearing has attracted intense media coverage and spectators who have angled for one of the 14 seats in the courtroom that are reserved for the public. Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026 The video shows a black vehicle angled towards a white van, their doors wide open, and the man lying between the two. Hallie Golden, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2026 These appear in every guest room and, angled to catch the changing light, create a constantly shifting patchwork of light and shadow, inspired by the Mayan belief that life is cyclical. Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026 Floor seating is flat, not angled, so a short child’s view depends almost entirely on the height of the crowd in front of them. Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 29 June 2026 Floor seating is flat rather than angled, so a child’s view depends entirely on the height of whoever is standing in front of them. Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for angled
Adjective
  • Common areas feature self-operating lifts or sloped entryways.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2026
  • The Karine armchair has some serious potential to become your new favorite chair with its sloped arms and relaxed silhouette, energized by a mellow shade of green.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 6 July 2026
Verb
  • Ahead of Argentina’s match against Switzerland, the odds were tilted toward Messi’s team.
    Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 17 July 2026
  • The camera cannot be tilted or repositioned, although the creators say that the wide field of view compensates for that factor.
    Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 13 July 2026
Adjective
  • At an event with the Bay Area Book Festival, Namwali and Cathy discuss slant rhymes, slanted grammars, and the slanting light Morrison wields in the passage to describe how a City stirs up beauty, violence, music, and love.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • With her fingers, Guadalupe Espinoza lightly traced the lettering engraved on a slanted monument wedged alongside the courtyard at the LA Plaza de Culturas y Artes.
    Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
Adjective
  • Workers want pay and benefits in line with what the union says is the new citywide standard, which is a minimum wage of $30 per hour for non-tipped workers by 2028, a 15-room daily quota for housekeeping workers, 18% banquet gratuity and more, the release says.
    Laura Fay, CBS News, 21 June 2026
  • Those who do appreciate that they are allowed to use them to help cover a wide variety of costs, whether that’s paying non-tipped staff like cooks and managers, buying raw materials or tackling health care premiums and credit card fees.
    Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
Adjective
  • Slimmer styles including ballet flats and classic flip-flops work well, in addition to heel styles revealing more of the foot, like a mule, slingback pump or heeled thong sandal.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 15 July 2026
  • She was seen Monday in New York wearing a plunging archival Alberta Ferretti minidress and Sophia Webster heeled gladiators.
    Tiffany Kelly, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026
Adjective
  • From lambs with quizzically cocked eyebrows, to lambs whose wooly coats are made of flower petals, to lambs that simply defy description.
    Deena Prichep, NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The actor Nicholas Christopher—brawny, bald, with a perpetually cocked eyebrow that brings to mind Yul Brynner—strode through the aisles of Tashkent Supermarket in Brighton Beach one afternoon.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Inside, the increasingly digital cockpit continues to evolve, with a new dash layout and canted touchscreens.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 20 May 2026
Adjective
  • British aerospace company Vertical Aerospace is set to conduct the first public electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) demonstration flights at the upcoming Farnborough International Airshow.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
  • The device sits on her palm flipped to its side, so that the video Berkett films is vertical rather than horizontal — because most people will still watch it on their smartphone.
    Alina Selyukh, NPR, 18 July 2026

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“Angled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/angled. Accessed 21 Jul. 2026.

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