Definition of quadratenext
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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Recent Examples of quadrate Its skull also showed reduced articulations between key bones and a shallow quadrate angle, both of which are associated with piscivory. Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
  • Two Pakistani security officials said that Pakistani ground forces were still in control on Sunday of a key Afghan post and a 12-square-mile area in the southern Zhob sector near Kandahar province, after having seized it during fighting Friday.
    ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN, Arkansas Online, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Since the program was created in 2020, developers must pay fees to cover new infrastructure and services like libraries only for housing units 500 square feet or larger.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Jump hour wristwatches, particularly those in rectangular cases, resurfaced during the Deco period in keeping with the era’s appetite for minimal, geometric design.
    Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The looping white steel of the glyph gave rise to a series of further glyphs, their high-gloss finish-fetish circular looping tubes being but a short step away from her colorful bent rectangular tubing.
    Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
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  • According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, the country is running a shortfall of more than 1,300 million cubic feet per day.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Contractors working with the NCDOT ran with his idea, resulting in 200 cubic feet of space for bats, officials said.
    Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2026

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“Quadrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrate. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.

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