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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  • Gilbert and her volunteer group had already planted dozens of trees in just a couple of hours, moving diagonally across a open, grassy field surrounded by ponderosa pines.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • When blooms start to fade, use clean pruning shears to cut the stem diagonally back to a leaf or another stem.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025
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  • Average ratings have dropped across almost all areas covered in the report.
    Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors stretch 150 feet across, framing uninterrupted sea views while allowing the interior to flow seamlessly onto terraces that seem to hover over the water below.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Kitty-corner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kitty-corner. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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