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
  • Lovett is particularly active in Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, with more than 13 million square feet of space completed, under construction or acquired in those two areas.
    Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 14 July 2025
  • The size will be approximately 128,000 square feet.
    Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • Save on runners and rectangular options starting at $33.
    Ali Faccenda, People.com, 12 July 2025
  • For example, a set of blue chairs at the far end of a rectangular garden will make the space feel larger than a set of red chairs in the same place.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • Boise officials urge safety precautions: No. 1 is life jackets The river, which figures to be busy as usual over the July 4 weekend, was flowing at about 860 cubic feet per second Thursday.
    Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman, 4 July 2025
  • With the rear seats folded, boot capacity expands from 24 cubic feet (678 L) to 62 cubic feet (1,758 L).
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 July 2025

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“Quadrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrate. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.

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