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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
Submersibles and submarines are shaped the way they are because spheres and cylinders are geometrically more resistant to crushing pressures.
From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2023
First run of the night is in the rich part of town—Potter Farms, where the houses are huge and geometrically pleasing to the eye, but the tips are not.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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