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“If anything, I’ve gotten worse in some ways. So, I’m back at square one, that I don’t know what’s going on with me,” she added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The square grooves therefore provided a more effective structure for producing force.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
The store has close to 46,000 square feet of space and will bring 200 new jobs to the area, a news release said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Argentinian polo champion Nacho Figueras and his son, Hilario Figueras, recently purchased a three-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom unit spanning 2,951 square feet, which was listed for $3.116 million.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
As Jeremy slid into his chair, Specimen pointed to a square of lavender paper tucked under the corner of Jeremy's books.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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
From the beginning of the republic, they were carried out in town squares across the country.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
Skopje is a city of statues, two or three hundred of them apparently, great big things in squares and in fountains commemorating tsars and dames, emperors and warriors, royalty and revolutionaries.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Each morning, groups of labourers gather at prominent squares in the main city of Srinagar, waiting to be hired.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Icy air spouts from four slotted squares above our heads, a reminder that this room was intended to preserve seeds.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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
The modern human talonid gives their teeth a squarer outline than those of Neanderthals.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 8, 2022
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
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
His current battle: At a Tuesday hearing, Gutiérrez and his team squared off against the Federal Communications Commission in federal court in Washington, D.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Near Earth's surface, little g is approximately 9.8 meters per second squared.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
"We shared the canvas and pushed each other to be our absolute best inside the squared ring. A true warrior and champion. Rest in peace, champ. Prayers with your family and loved ones," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Last December, throngs of supporters and foes squared off at a raucous Metro board meeting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
I squared my shoulders and pushed those thoughts away.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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
Mr. Rogers, the Republican candidate for Senate, is squaring off against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, a 41-year-old Rhodes scholar and doctor who never practiced medicine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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
When one’s thoughts wander to Rome, they often include visions of men squaring off into some mythical arena.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
He spent most of his time in the farmhouse, squaring the farm’s accounts.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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