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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.
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quadrate
Adjective
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Earlier this year, Lake Forest Hospital completed an approximately 300,000-square-foot expansion featuring 96 medical-surgical beds and 18 observation beds.—
Daniel I. Dorfman,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2026
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The price is based on square footage, which has been anywhere between about $700 and $800 per square foot.—
Abigail Hasebroock,
Sun Sentinel,
11 May 2026
Adjective
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Instead of the standard, boring rectangular fins found in the home PC, the algorithm generated complex, jagged, and pointed copper structures optimized for both heat absorption and fluid flow.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
8 May 2026
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Baking it in a rectangular pan, rather than multiple round cake pans, makes pulling off this classic cake easier than ever—no layers to slice or delicately stack.—
Martha Stewart,
Martha Stewart,
8 May 2026
Adjective
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China plans to initially divert some four billion cubic meters of water from the Yangtze to the Yellow River annually in the first phase of part of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project—but that’s less water than what’s being captured by the Yangtze, the study authors warn.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
12 May 2026
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During its lifetime, Habitat has produced mostly natural gas — more than 232 million cubic feet — and a relatively meager showing of crude oil, less than 250,000 barrels, according to federal records.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
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“Quadrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrate. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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