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rectangle

[rek-tang-guhl] / ˈrɛkˌtæŋ gəl /
NOUN
four-sided figure
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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

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

Yet, anyone born with “19” at the start of their birthyear still remembers how it felt to leave the house without a black rectangle in their hands.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 12, 2026

In “Venice, Palazzo Dario,” each rectangle has a different kind of broken color and a different temperature.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 11, 2025

With the hard plastic rectangle hidden in his palm, he walked into the noisy sprawling space.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

Transfer the rectangles to the prepared baking sheet.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

It is drawing up plans for data centers that look more like Silicon Valley tech campuses or art museums, rather than windowless rectangles that neighbors often grouse about resembling prisons.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 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

Nearby, irregular, rusty red rectangles stamped from an unidentified frame are laid end-to-end on a scroll of white paper that runs across a low, horizontal pedestal before bending up to climb a wall.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2024

They then folded the banana leaves into rectangles, tied them with cotton twine, and dropped the pasteles into a huge pot of boiling water.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago




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