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Recent Examples of rectangleSixteen hockey executives in little Zoom rectangles on the ESPN screen at 7 p.m. on Monday — 15 general managers and one Miracle on Ice/four-time Stanley Cup winner.—Arthur Staple, New York Times, 6 May 2025 One to two sandwiches cut into crustless rectangles or triangles will nicely fill a tiered tray or a small platter.—Oset Babür-Winter, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 May 2025 Usually surfaces in a plane, such as a rectangle or a circle, are two-dimensional.—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2025 Saddleback Caterpillar has a stout, brown body about an inch long with a bright green rectangle and an oval saddle marking on its back.—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rectangle
To meet rising demand, companies sprang up and began churning out rides – smaller versions for traveling carnivals and larger ones for town squares and amusement parks.
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Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
26 May 2025
The barbecue restaurant is just north of the square, and Alexander says business has suffered because of it.
The sculpture appears in the form of a glass cube, which glows with light that changes color based on live temperature data taken from the Hoh Rain Forest in near Seattle, Washington State.
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Lucy Handley,
CNBC,
1 June 2025
Open, add three to five cubes or a generous handful of pebble ice, seal and shake vigorously for about three to four minutes.
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