1
as in side
a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded
from this angle, that car looks gray, not brown
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2
as in perspective
a way of looking at or thinking about something
what's your angle on the problem?
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3
as in curvature
something that curves or is curved
the road around the peninsula is all angles and hairpin turns
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as in to slope
to set or cause to be at an angle
angle the camera this way and the Leaning Tower of Pisa will look straight
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Recent Examples of angle
Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 5 Feb. 2026
Spokespeople like Sanders Townsend are often oppositional and focused on spinning their candidates' angles to reporters like Daniels, but healthy working relationships make things flow more smoothly for both sides.
—Jay Stahl, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 31 Jan. 2026
Compassionate Venus angles off auspicious Jupiter, spotlighting your 8th House of Generous Intimacy, which could signal adjustments around trust and money.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
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Noun
Throughout his career, his cinematic accomplishments have challenged audiences with their epic, poetic and humanitarian angles.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 5 Feb. 2026
Spokespeople like Sanders Townsend are often oppositional and focused on spinning their candidates' angles to reporters like Daniels, but healthy working relationships make things flow more smoothly for both sides.
—Jay Stahl, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
Verb
Sanfilippo, a fifth-generation commercial fisherman, angled for haddock, lobster and flounder, according to the report.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 31 Jan. 2026
Compassionate Venus angles off auspicious Jupiter, spotlighting your 8th House of Generous Intimacy, which could signal adjustments around trust and money.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for angle
Noun
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On the winning side of Wall Street were companies that stand to benefit from big spending by Alphabet and others continuing the AI frenzy.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Feb. 2026
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Interestingly, not on the recruitment side.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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From a design perspective, that reinforces Ratti’s desire to keep the emphasis on the flame itself and not the object.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
6 Feb. 2026
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This makes sense from a certain perspective.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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These two are among the fastest plant movements in all of botany, involving rapid changes in leaf curvature and cellular pressure.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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Sageman-Furnas, Bobenko, and Hoffmann decided to look for a smooth analogue of the rhino whose curvature lines were similarly restricted to living in planes or on spheres.—
Elise Cutts,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The cars were situated on a little plateau, almost a peninsula, surrounded on three sides by downward sloping terrain.—
Scott Eden,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
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Low fence markers can be seen outlining the building zone along Route 2, which slopes along open land, wooded patches and some ravines.—
Anna Ortiz,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2026
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One of the most recent adaptations of the novel, the 2011 version by Andrea Arnold, notably leaned into this aspect of the book by casting the multiracial James Howson as Heathcliff.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2026
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Like those auteurs, Lisa McGee broke through with a sui generis comedy that mined aspects of her own experience to find authentic humor in a harrowing situation.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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They're exhausted by the constant airing of grievances having little to do with what's actually going on in the country, and by the broad generalizations about, well, everything, that ignore context, nuance and facts to promote a political viewpoint.—
Brenda Looper,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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Check out the Hill's Opinion section Hundreds of policy experts from a range of political viewpoints and areas of expertise.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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From my perch on a sun lounger, Friendship Bay stretches out below me – the curve of the powdery sand beach, the impossible blue of the sea and the calming lapping of the waves against the shore.—
Rebekah Evans,
TheWeek,
5 Feb. 2026
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But Disney is graded on a curve, and investors have kept the stock in neutral since 2022, anxiously awaiting the Next Great Era of Disney that Bob Iger’s return to the helm promised.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
Verb
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At one point, the individual appears to tilt their head away from a doorbell camera, hold a flashlight in their mouth and attempt to cover the lens with a gloved hand and what looked like part of a plant pulled from the yard.—
Bradford Betz , Matt Finn,
FOXNews.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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In one of the videos, the person tilts their head downward while walking through the home’s front archway.—
Tom Winter,
NBC news,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Angle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/angle. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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