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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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Phoenix spreads over a whopping 517 square miles, and that’s not even including adjacent towns like Scottsdale and Tempe.—
Chris Malloy,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
14 Apr. 2026
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The area, an expanse of more than a hundred square miles, has been chronically under-resourced.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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From a design perspective, the ZS300 is as typical as compact cameras get, a rectangular block with a screen on the back, a lens on the front, and shutter controls up top.—
Jim Fisher,
PC Magazine,
14 Apr. 2026
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Shadows appear and disappear as branches blow across the high rectangular windows.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The human-composting process can convert each of us into roughly a cubic yard of soil, to be placed directly on or in the earth.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
14 Apr. 2026
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The results suggested a threshold of 2 milligrams per cubic meter of air, along with low-, medium-, and high-risk categories that individual airlines and manufacturers in Europe now use to decide their ash tolerance.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Quadrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrate. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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