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The thousands of square miles of mountain watershed around us, the San Gabriels and the San Bernardinos, are as steep as roller coasters, and the rain funnels off them in tumults.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
In another instance, a model uploaded files to the internet to cite them without being asked by a user that was looking for the names and identifications of lakes larger than 5 million square meters.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Mr. Lucas, de facto chief curator since December, has taken the helm, staging more than 1,300 of his own objects in 33 galleries spanning 100,000 square feet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
But an extraordinary 90-foot putt from Kupcho on the 17th clawed the Americans back into contention and they headed up the last hole all square.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
In the square, they wrung out their clothes and assessed each other for bruises, and for a moment, the giddy pleasure of not being dead transcended everything.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
The game ends when all five squares turn green or when the player uses all six attempts without finding the answer.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Whereas in a zoom, you have all these squares, and anyone can hit a button and exit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Rather than relying on elaborate studio sets, the production embraced the neighborhood’s authentic character, allowing real businesses, public squares, and residential streets to become integral parts of the series’ identity.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Thousands of fans filled the Ángel de la Independencia, the Zócalo and other squares across the country, as well as watch parties in cities like Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Like squares and triangles, lines were number-shapes, so dividing a string into two parts was the same as taking a ratio of two numbers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
His jaw was squarer and facial hair thicker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Even the cars' noses are different - Ferrari's narrow and needle-like against the more conventional, squarer ones of Mercedes and Red Bull.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2022
The modern human talonid gives their teeth a squarer outline than those of Neanderthals.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 8, 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
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
The grey eminence himself has even appeared at that squarest of social gatherings, a writers' conference.
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
And in the bargain I’ve squared a longstanding account, which pays psychic benefits hard to quantify.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
A financial and logistical circle needs to be squared.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Last December, throngs of supporters and foes squared off at a raucous Metro board meeting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Texas to question whether modern forfeiture practice can be squared with its narrow historical roots.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
“I just wish we could get his sleeping-pattern behavior squared away. If he's not ready to be placed with a family unit by the time of the next Ceremony, well...”
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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
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
That's before you get to the matter of having accounts signed off, squaring matters with the Electoral Commission, and then stumping up deposits for candidates.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
Her parents squaring off in the open doorway of their bedroom.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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