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
  • The second half, which will come years later, is set to include another 37,500-square-foot hangar and 28 small aircraft T-hangars of at least 1,200 square feet each.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Built in 1925, the 1,926-square-foot house had some foundation issues that would need to be addressed.
    Mark Kreidler, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The statues were placed on rectangular stone platforms called ahu, which serve as tombs.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The Bonaire cabin kit caught our eye for its modern, rectangular shape that takes inspiration from vacation resort cabins.
    Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Soon after, a 392 cubic inch HEMI gave customers 470 horsepower off the lot.
    Liam Rappleye, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Almost 8,000 cubic yards of dirt was removed, too.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 4 Oct. 2025

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“Quadrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrate. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.

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