as in transversely
in a line or direction running from corner to corner
placed two strips of pimiento diagonally on each deviled egg
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Recent Examples of diagonally
Cut ends diagonally to finish the look.
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Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2025
Try turning the box diagonally.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
The dispenser tube at the bulk milk/creamer dispenser was not cut diagonally and was cut longer than an inch.
—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 21 Nov. 2025
The 500-kilovolt line would skim a parking lot, cross through the woods and over a metal deer fence, before running diagonally across a field of Douglas firs and blue spruces and continuing as far as the eye could see.
—Bracey Harris, NBC news, 1 Nov. 2025
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Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2025
Try turning the box diagonally.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
The dispenser tube at the bulk milk/creamer dispenser was not cut diagonally and was cut longer than an inch.
—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 21 Nov. 2025
The 500-kilovolt line would skim a parking lot, cross through the woods and over a metal deer fence, before running diagonally across a field of Douglas firs and blue spruces and continuing as far as the eye could see.
—Bracey Harris, NBC news, 1 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diagonally
Adverb
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Its mighty 12-cylinder heart is mounted transversely, stretching side-to-side across the chassis instead of the front-to-back layout usually used with engines of more than four cylinders.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
6 Nov. 2025
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At night, the dinette converts over into the 53 x 74-in (135 x 188-cm) double bed that runs transversely.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The show has been a huge hit for Netflix but will move across in less than two year’s time.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
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Such impacts can excavate craters tens of feet across, even from meteoroids weighing just a few pounds.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
4 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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If its absence speaks obliquely to the Dadaist disregard for aesthetic permanence, its iconography—and its iconoclastic mordancy—echoes throughout his entire corpus.—
Ara H. Merjian,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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Chinese President Xi Jinping also weighed in Wednesday, albeit obliquely, making a brief reference to the Taiwan situation in an annual New Year’s Eve speech to the nation.—
Ted Anthony,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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Make another layer with another 1/4 of the eggplant slices, this time arranging them crosswise to the first layer.—
Carolyn Casner,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Aug. 2022
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Serve: Carve the chicken breasts off the bone, slice them crosswise, and serve with the salad.—
Beth Segal,
cleveland,
23 Sep. 2021
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“Diagonally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diagonally. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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