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Changing the target “midstream,” he said, would be very hard to square with credibility, “but I also don’t think that’s what he was suggesting.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
More than 30,000 square feet of park space will be added along E. 107th Street, while climate-resilient landscaping will reduce flooding, improve stormwater management and create cooler public spaces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Olympic-level mental gymnastics are required to square this circle,” said Timothy Caulfield, a professor of law and public health at the University of Alberta.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
"We feel safe with the army presence... the important thing is that it stays here," said Ayad Shoucair, 65, who was in the square with friends.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
But up there where my neck craned to see, above the crazy roofs and crooked chimneys, was a square of pale pearl sky.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
On a lightly floured surface, unfold the puff pastry and cut it into nine roughly 3-inch squares.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
State media reported that millions of mourners filled the main boulevards connecting the squares and crowding around the black lorry that carried the coffin of the late supreme leader and four family members.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
How that promise squares with the layoffs is unclear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
In nearby La Paz, military police and navy personnel guarded the presidential palace and police tactical units were stationed on main squares.
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
They murmured more prayers Anya didn’t know while they poured water over one hand, then the other, and then, silent, they dried their hands on the cloth squares.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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
I’d wager somewhere in that territory, but hopefully it won’t be much longer before we find out the full story — and learn the differences between the Sub Mini and its larger, squarer sibling.
From The Verge ● Jun. 2, 2022
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
Or nose-to-forehead, as Junior was shorter and squarer than me.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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
His face is full and oval, his jaw " one of the squarest and most determined in the United States," with a friendly, boyish and disarming smile.
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
The ant experiences acceleration exceeding 1300 meters per second squared before becoming tangled in the web.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has squared off against Elon Musk, according to the authors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
"I've had to sort a huge carpet for the swimming pool, which is around 170 metres squared."
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
And she adds: “The court’s apparently oblivious insistence to the contrary today cannot be squared with what Callais said on its face just over one month ago.”
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
Hab squared his shoulders and stuck out his lower lip.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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
The episode aired in 1948, but the idea is strangely valid today, except that it’s Elon Musk squaring off with himself.
From Barron's ● May 24, 2026
OpenAI was squaring off against its largest shareholder Microsoft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
I remember, though, how she would stand right here for a moment, squaring her shoulders, steeling herself.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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