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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  • The flats are made from smooth faux leather and have a modern square toe and double straps — just like the pair Kruger wore.
    Jeaneen Russell, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The 13,956 square foot lake house is located on nearly six acres at 944 South Shore Drive on Lake Maxinkuckee in Culver, Indiana.
    Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • Most rectangular pieces feature a menu item — written in Japanese and English — as well as a price.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
  • All iPhones are expected to receive rectangular camera bumps with rounded corners.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
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  • For Ethiopia the unveiling of the 74-billion cubic meter dam, which has been 14 years in the making and cost $5 billion, was the culmination of a dream and proved the East African nation the winner in a bitter diplomatic battle over its construction.
    Kate Bartlett, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The PoS-2 will deliver 50 billion cubic meters of gas annually from Western Siberia to northern China via Mongolia.
    Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Quadrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrate. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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