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Christmas often inspires visions of perfection: the geometrically precise tree, the artfully arranged mantel, the candlelit feast a flawless tableau.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Similarly, when Pabst visits the Nazi propaganda ministry, its geometrically baffling corridors remind him of “a trick he himself had used repeatedly in long tracking shots.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2025
"We saw designs that were significantly better than the dataset, but also designs that were geometrically incompatible because the model wasn't focused on meeting design constraints," Regenwetter says.
From Science Daily • Oct. 20, 2023
In a similar way, the golden ratio φ can be constructed geometrically, as can many other irrational values.
From Scientific American • May 23, 2023
But he went further: in place of the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems, he proposed his own geoheliocentric system, which was geometrically equivalent to Copernicanism but had a moving sun and a stationary Earth.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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