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
  • Several of the production facilities that CNN analyzed have swiftly replaced villages and farmland, growing by tens of thousands of square feet in the past five years.
    Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Matty Ianniello’s office was in Midtown Manhattan in the 50s off Sixth Avenue, on a block full of the highest rents per square foot in the world.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Ancient calendar The center of the site is a large, raised rectangular platform or plaza with room for more than 1,000 people to gather.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The large kitchen, meanwhile, features a recessed dual-burner stove with gas lid, large rectangular.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • The canals and pond, which were aggregately 193,000 cubic meters in volume and appear to have no practical purpose, would have taken 255,000 days of labor by a single individual.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Globally, it is estimated that more than 4 million cubic meters of nuclear waste are currently in storage.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025

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“Quadrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrate. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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