rectangle

as in square

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Recent Examples of rectangle Sixteen 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
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Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Meg Anderson, NPR, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 31 May 2025

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“Rectangle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rectangle. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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