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rectangle

[rek-tang-guhl] / ˈrɛkˌtæŋ gəl /
NOUN
four-sided figure
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Painted after Artemisia returned to Rome after several years in Florence, the roughly life-size, seated figure is folded elegantly into the rectangle of the canvas.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 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

Once the dough had risen, I rolled it into a rectangle, spread on a thin layer of the miso-béchamel, showered it with Parmesan, Pecorino Romano and a very healthy amount of black pepper.

From Salon Nov. 12, 2025

There’s shampoo and conditioner, but also lotion and rectangle soap and round soap and bumpy, massaging soap and a shower scrub soap.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

The previous Galaxy Fold models are typical phone-shaped rectangles when closed, and Samsung is continuing the same elongated look with its new Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Transfer the rectangles to the prepared baking sheet.

From Salon Jul. 20, 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

In L.A.’s brittle landscape of concrete rectangles and choking freeways, Eaton Canyon, just seven miles from where we live, was a sanctuary to thousands of people.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 28, 2025

The world around them had disappeared from view, swallowed up by the night, but not far away a few pale rectangles glowed in the dark.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke




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