rectangle
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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
The MetroCard, a scuffed yellow rectangle that lived in wallets, coat pockets and the bottoms of tote bags for more than three decades, is officially reaching the end of the line.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2025
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
We stared at the flat silver rectangle in his palm.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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Transfer the rectangles to the prepared baking sheet.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
And while such daily interactions are reduced to thumbs slipping over greasy rectangles of glass, pinball is irreducibly concrete: physics and mechanics turned into dazzling entertainment, a silvery dance with gravity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 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
Most letters, the kind you mailed, were rectangles, he realized, just like an accurately put-together pentomino solution.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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Vocabulary lists containing rectangle
Geometry - Introductory
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 2
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Geometry - Middle School
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