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Recent Examples of rectangular
Here, a simple rectangular design creates a barrier for bonfires without taking up any unnecessary space.
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Marisa Donnelly, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 May 2026
Meals miraculously appeared through the kitchen door into the dining room, where they were eaten at a rectangular table with the eldest male at the head.
—Big Think, 1 May 2026
The heavy rectangular plaque was located near the intersection of West Alameda Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard and commemorates the 5,000 workers who extended the Alameda Parkway to Red Rocks Amphitheater during the Great Depression.
—Christa Swanson, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
The Captify Pro looks almost like regular spectacles, with simple, thin black plastic frames surrounding rectangular lenses.
—Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
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Marisa Donnelly, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 May 2026
Meals miraculously appeared through the kitchen door into the dining room, where they were eaten at a rectangular table with the eldest male at the head.
—Big Think, 1 May 2026
The heavy rectangular plaque was located near the intersection of West Alameda Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard and commemorates the 5,000 workers who extended the Alameda Parkway to Red Rocks Amphitheater during the Great Depression.
—Christa Swanson, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
The Captify Pro looks almost like regular spectacles, with simple, thin black plastic frames surrounding rectangular lenses.
—Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rectangular
Adjective
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This versatile crop grows oblong and has a sweeter flavor than traditional cabbage.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
11 May 2026
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Pick Award-Winning Hybrids Available in both round and oblong varieties (sometimes called grape tomatoes), cherry tomato plants fruit in a rainbow of colors.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 May 2026
Adjective
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China plans to initially divert some four billion cubic meters of water from the Yangtze to the Yellow River annually in the first phase of part of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project—but that’s less water than what’s being captured by the Yangtze, the study authors warn.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
12 May 2026
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During its lifetime, Habitat has produced mostly natural gas — more than 232 million cubic feet — and a relatively meager showing of crude oil, less than 250,000 barrels, according to federal records.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
Adjective
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The focal point of the outfit is her boxy leather jacket, similar to this roomy style that comes in brown, black, and gray.—
Rachel Trujillo,
PEOPLE,
11 May 2026
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So many new builds right now are very generic and boxy, with almost no decorative features, but many are still brick.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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Two computer monitors displayed a riot of overlapping windows, including an old, blocky software program called P-COM, which offered thirty-five types of commands.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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The biggest transformation occurs in the blocky, brutalist Crucible Theatre, which shifts from staging Shakespeare and Harold Pinter to become the Theatre of Dreams — snooker’s holiest of holy sites, where 32 leading players from across the world compete to be be named the best of the best.—
Andrew Dickson,
Bloomberg,
2 May 2026
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Luca Chiaravalle: The Smallest Muse Luca Chiaravalle makes miniature art galleries, the rectangular and cubical scenes housing tiny people contemplating art.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
28 Feb. 2026
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Even the workpiece itself was cubical.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Earlier this year, Lake Forest Hospital completed an approximately 300,000-square-foot expansion featuring 96 medical-surgical beds and 18 observation beds.—
Daniel I. Dorfman,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2026
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The price is based on square footage, which has been anywhere between about $700 and $800 per square foot.—
Abigail Hasebroock,
Sun Sentinel,
11 May 2026
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This place exists in autonomy, in relief, a dry, febrile land of cuboid houses and scrawled horizons.—
Maya Boyd,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 Aug. 2022
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The hefty hardback, which weighs nearly eight pounds, comprises 222 pages and more than 125 illustrations dedicated to LV’s iconic cuboid creations.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
21 July 2022
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“Rectangular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rectangular. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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