rectangle
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Each new segment of the city he rides is generally a rectangle bound by major streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Place a small oven-safe 3-ounce ramekin in the center of each rectangle, pressing down lightly to create a well.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
When will a small flat rectangle of electronics stop being the preferred form factor for the computers 5.8 billion humans carry around with them?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Another incident detected in early January involved around 1,000 Chinese fishing vessels clustered in an uneven rectangle, about 400 kilometres long, for more than a day in the same area of the East China Sea.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
The blood congeals into a long, red terrycloth rectangle.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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Cut one sheet of puff pastry into four rectangles and arrange them on a parchment-lined sheet pan.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Those red rectangles that you step off and get on for people in wheelchairs, those are probably our No. 1 priority, making sure they’re accessible.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
A “salon” of multiple smaller works introduced each section, enlarging on Mr. Whitney’s shift from gatherings of blunt, sometimes layered, rounded forms to the abutments of rectangles that have preoccupied him since the 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
In L.A.’s brittle landscape of concrete rectangles and choking freeways, Eaton Canyon, just seven miles from where we live, was a sanctuary to thousands of people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
The tiny rectangles swarmed the crowd and burst with noise.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Geometry - Introductory
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 2
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Geometry - Middle School
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