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Recent Examples of rectangular
These typically featured broad, square or rectangular expanses of white or gray, bordered by a heavy band of black, the two non-hues separated by a narrow strip of color.
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News Desk, Artforum, 23 Jan. 2025
Stretching the length of more than two football fields, the building’s basic rectangular form is bookended by two one-way helical ramps — up on the west and down on the east.
—Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
Most boards are rectangular and are comparable to cutting board sizes.
—Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
During the mid-1960s, at a time when many artists were departing from traditional square and rectangular formats, Overstreet shaped his canvases even more dramatically than his colleagues, creating custom stretchers that allowed his paintings to exist in gangly geometric shapes.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 4 Feb. 2025
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News Desk, Artforum, 23 Jan. 2025
Stretching the length of more than two football fields, the building’s basic rectangular form is bookended by two one-way helical ramps — up on the west and down on the east.
—Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
Most boards are rectangular and are comparable to cutting board sizes.
—Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
During the mid-1960s, at a time when many artists were departing from traditional square and rectangular formats, Overstreet shaped his canvases even more dramatically than his colleagues, creating custom stretchers that allowed his paintings to exist in gangly geometric shapes.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 4 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for rectangular
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rectangular
Adjective
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If the spot is faint and oblong, the egg isn’t fertilized.—
Joan Morris,
The Mercury News,
17 Feb. 2025
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My other friends would teach me how to throw and catch that once-strange oblong object.—
Peter Ji,
Hartford Courant,
4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Researchers grew a synthetic diamond that’s harder than natural ones by heating and compressing graphite in such a way that the diamond is formed with a hexagonal lattice, rather than the cubic shape found in nature.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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At Shasta Lake, federal dam operators have let out 60,000 cubic feet per second since Saturday through the outlet valves at the massive Shasta Dam.—
Paul Rogers,
The Mercury News,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Tate McRae favored a boxy silhouette for an appearance on SiriusXM on Wednesday.—
Hannah Malach,
WWD,
27 Feb. 2025
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The cropped and boxy jacket has two D patch pockets on the waist, a full zip front, and a zippered chest pocket.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The computers were blocky, the jeans were baggy, and the US military was sending Marines to Iraq to support weapons inspections.—
Sarah Scoles,
Popular Science,
2 Nov. 2023
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According to reports from the Osservatorio Etneo, most of the lava flows have been small and cool enough to become blocky flows not too far from the crater area, but on at least three occasions since December 23, major lava flows have been produced.—
Erik Klemetti,
Discover Magazine,
14 Jan. 2013
Adjective
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Once that happens, terahertz communications can significantly complement mmWave in indoor environments such as a hallway, meeting rooms, cubical offices, laboratories, and open areas.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
17 Apr. 2019
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The were only a few objects and all had a single, cubical shape.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
1 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Located in Terminal 3, Concourse D near Gate 50, the lounge is roughly 8,200 square feet with seating for 135 guests—similar in size to Capital One’s lounge at Washington Dulles (IAD).—
Ryan Slattery,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Feb. 2025
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Constructed in 2014, the spread is the largest residence in town, offering more than 15,000 square feet of living space.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This place exists in autonomy, in relief, a dry, febrile land of cuboid houses and scrawled horizons.—
Maya Boyd,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 Aug. 2022
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The hefty hardback, which weighs nearly eight pounds, comprises 222 pages and more than 125 illustrations dedicated to LV’s iconic cuboid creations.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
21 July 2022
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“Rectangular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rectangular. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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