rectangular

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The town also has around a dozen emergency shelters, concrete rectangular boxes measuring three by six metres, close to certain public places.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

In the newest version of the detector, the metasurface that absorbs light was redesigned into a circular shape rather than a rectangular one.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026

One of the current show’s larger conceptual pieces, “Memorial for the Victims of Organized Religion II,” fills a corner with 48 rectangular portrait-sized photographs, all of them solid black or dark blue.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

It’s a bunch of rectangular boxes stacked on top of each other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Fortunately, a plastic-wrapped envelope labeled “Clue,” with something rectangular in it, was attached to the lid’s underside.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein