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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  • This is a six-bed, six-and-three-half bath, 9,000-square-foot, English Country Estate-Style Cottage in the River Glades neighborhood of Prospect.
    Lennie Omalza, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • He’s composed and routinely square to the puck.
    Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
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  • Regardless, its existence was a political statement and a sign of wealth, as large rectangular stone towers were generally limited to rival Anglo-Norman lords and rulers.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Many were rectangular in shape, but a few were round as well.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
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  • 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 9 Oct. 2025.

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