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rectangular

[rek-tang-gyuh-ler] / rɛkˈtæŋ gyə lər /




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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

She ate her weird lunch at the other end of the long rectangular table where Taryn and Ivy sat, and she just...watched.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake




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