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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Adverb
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Arbuckle watched as the group marched diagonally across an intersection on Main Street.—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
28 May 2025 -
Following complaints about drivers parking diagonally at a curb beside Torrey Pines Road in La Jolla, the city of San Diego bumped up its schedule to paint the section of curb red to keep people from parking there.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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The company’s spec sheet says that each panel is 22 inches across, with a 480-by-540 resolution and refresh rates from 48 to 144Hz.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
14 May 2025
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Once chest length, her hair now sits just above chin-length, cut straight across in one layer and flipped slightly outward at the ends.—
Nicola Dall'Asen,
Allure,
5 May 2025
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“Kitty-corner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kitty-corner. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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