variants also catty-corner or catercorner or kitty-cornered or catty-cornered or catercornered
as in diagonally
in a line or direction running from corner to corner walked kitty-corner across the quadrangle to the registration booth

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Recent Examples of kitty-corner The store, which is kitty-corner to an Albertsons supermarket, was built by Safeway in 1950 with a Marina-style rounded roof. Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 23 Aug. 2025 The low-income apartments will sit kitty-corner to the Townes at Kennedy-King, a recent townhome development by Onyx+East along the growing 22nd Street corridor. Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 18 Aug. 2025
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Adverb
  • Remove any crossing branches or those that grow diagonally through the canopy.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The slim plot, a leftover from when the Avenue of the Americas cut diagonally through the grid in the 1920s, was for many decades home to a gas station and carwash.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Alonso and his team will fly a total of 17 hours across to Kazakhstan and back, before facing Villarreal at home in La Liga on Saturday.
    Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The fruit, which grow in clusters on the trunk and scaffold branches, are jumbo size compared to ordinary figs, reaching four inches across.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025

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“Kitty-corner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kitty-corner. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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