as in square
having four equal sides and four right angles the four museum buildings surround a quadrate courtyard that is formally landscaped

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Adjective
  • Standard rooms start at 340 square feet and come with a king-size bed or two double beds.
    Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The stand-alone Manhattan boutique spans over two floors with 3,300 square feet of retail space.
    Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • After posing for a photo opportunity with then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in his private office, the men filed through into the cabinet room next door and took seats at its long, rectangular table.
    Billy Perrigo, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Ribbons were popular as a clasp from the 1400s until the 1780s, before metal terminals in circular, rectangular or D-shapes became more highly used.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • On Thursday, Trinity Gas Storage announced commencement of operations at its 24 bcf (billion cubic feet) storage unit located near Carthage in East Texas, about 160 miles southeast of Dallas.
    David Blackmon, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Nemeth noted that in the spring of 2023 when California was being drenched with atmospheric river storms, 156,000 cubic feet of water per second — an enormous amount similar to the flow of the Columbia River — was flowing through the Delta and under the Golden Gate Bridge out to the sea.
    Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Quadrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrate. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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