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square

[skwair] / skwɛər /






NOUN
municipal park
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Managing your own needs as an athlete and the increasing demands of fans is not an easy circle to square.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The fitness entrepreneur, 46, shared an AI-generated rendering of the planned residence on Instagram, revealing that it will span between 12,000 and 13,000 square feet.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

AFP saw pushing and shoving between front-row protesters and officers trying to keep the surging crowd away from Jakarta's central Bundaran HI public square, which is surrounded by businesses and embassies.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Weil has leases around the globe, including one for some 380,000 square feet at the General Motors Building across from Central Park in Manhattan, according to CoStar Group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

She combines that with suede boots and square, vintage pink sunglasses.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Demonstrations in Marseille in the south and Lyon in the southeast have been banned at the weekend, while in Paris protesters will only be allowed to march a limited route between Bastille and Nation squares.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

"The streets and squares of Tirana have never seen lions like these students," he said during an evening meeting on Wednesday, Albania's state-run news agency Ata reported.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Small enough to be a single-sized dessert, these bakery-style squares have a brown-sugar base, chewy edges and a buttery center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

After a decade of terrifying squares, avoiding religious stalkers and navigating label purgatory, Twin Temple might finally be at the precipice of what they’ve long manifested — rock stardom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

We're down to about five squares on the toilet paper roll.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

His jaw was squarer and facial hair thicker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

It's Amy Jones's turn for consecutive fours, whacking Rameen Shamim through mid-wicket before going squarer as she plays a lovely sweep shot that sees the ball race across the outfield and to the ropes.

From BBC ● May 10, 2024

He blasted the court’s secret deliberations, complaining: “A horse thief in frontier days would have received a squarer deal.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2021

The squarer the poop, the healthier the wombat.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 27, 2021

I knew my traveller with his broad and jetty eyebrows; his square forehead, made squarer by the horizontal sweep of his black hair.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

America’s most middlebrow casual restaurant, with America’s squarest CEO, selling fried cheese and margaritas and fajita plates that you can eat off for days.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2025

Who jorts have been claimed by — punk rockers, pop stars and rappers, the squarest middle-aged men on weekends — is simply the narrative sewn on top of the real narrative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

“He thought I was the squarest person and replied, ‘What planet are you from?’”

From Fox News ● Jun. 6, 2019

Her emeralds are the squarest, her mink the darkest.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of them, a very short older man with the squarest, broadest face of orange-brown I’d ever seen, said something to them and they all began leaving.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

And in the bargain I’ve squared a longstanding account, which pays psychic benefits hard to quantify.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Last December, throngs of supporters and foes squared off at a raucous Metro board meeting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Texas to question whether modern forfeiture practice can be squared with its narrow historical roots.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

Can that be squared with keeping to existing borrowing rules?

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

“That’s two squared times three squared times ten. And there are three hundred sixty degrees in a circle. And the line that makes a circle goes on and on and on, without any end.”

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Both offer compelling tools for squaring the circle that many people face when they retire: squeezing out the maximum material standard of living for the rest of their life.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

It was £117m club-record signing Morgan Rogers, however, who set the tone for a combative display, squaring up to Everton defender James Tarkowski during an eventful first half.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The process has never been tested, and right now former state Rep. Charles Booker, a Democrat, and GOP Rep. Andy Barr are squaring off for the seat McConnell is abandoning.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

It was hard squaring the hulking mass of midshipmen who would nearly trample me at Herndon with these two polite teenagers prone to nervous laughter.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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