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  • Like the three of us—with me serving as understudy for the hypotenuse, quite an appropriate substitution, since I'm replacing my antipode, don't you think so, Dominique?†  (source)
  • You would not write your name in pencil across the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.†  (source)
  • —No, said Lynch, give me the hypotenuse of the Venus of Praxiteles.†  (source)
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  • At sea, septentrional, by night the polestar, located at the point of intersection of the right line from beta to alpha in Ursa Maior produced and divided externally at omega and the hypotenuse of the rightangled triangle formed by the line alpha omega so produced and the line alpha delta of Ursa Maior.†  (source)
  • Pennsylvania Avenue is the hypotenuse of two triangles.†
  • a love triangle with murder at the hypotenuse
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