Example Sentences

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Researchers are now studying how ice wedge polygons, a common Arctic landscape feature, influence how water and carbon move toward coastal areas.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

Vast polygons mark forest concessions covering 11 million hectares in the DRC, some of which exist only on paper.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

The interface showed purple cow icons confined within red polygons — virtual fences that shock the cattle via collars should they stray.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

But on rare occasions, designers choose to build their interactive worlds not from pixels and polygons but from physical materials like cardboard and clay.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2024

There are an infinite number of regular polygons, but only five regular solids.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan