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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Adjective
  • Built to last, the 2020 model features a new roof design that boasts up to 90 pounds per square foot of snow load.
    Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The scale is impressive at more than forty thousand square feet, but what stays with you is the ambition and the experience - an American vision of design planted right in the middle of Europe’s most iconic avenue.
    Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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  • The Pros have an entirely new look, with a large rectangular housing around its rear three cameras and flash, along with a second rectangular section below it.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
  • There’s no steering wheel or pedals, and the rectangular shape has led many in the industry to describe it as a toaster on wheels.
    Salvador Rodriguez,Annie Palmer, CNBC, 10 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 14 Sep. 2025.

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