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From the main mast, a square scarlet sail hung in a style that was already archaic by America’s founding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The brick abode features five bedrooms across 6,516 square feet on over 6 acres.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
The government has allocated more than 40 plots of land in La Guaira, totaling about 584,000 square meters, for the construction of new homes, Rodriguez said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
Peppering the crowd with whips off his hips and crunches down the ground, Buttler brought up his century by pulling spinner Axar Patel over square leg for six.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Flopears had only a measly little square of hard salt-and-water corn bread in his pail that wouldn’t fill a wood tick.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
How that promise squares with the layoffs is unclear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Journalists reported seeing police and military personnel in main squares on Saturday.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Using these clues, players continue making guesses until they either find the answer and turn all five squares green or run out of attempts.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
An anonymous sheet by an Austrian designer from about 1515 shows the whole operation compressed into a single image of a finial, upon which are inscribed the subdivided squares that generated it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
The frame was built in the form of six-and-a-half-foot squares so that exploration of the site could take place square by square.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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
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
The squarer the poop, the healthier the wombat.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 27, 2021
My jaw looked squarer, broader, my neck thicker, with a bulge of Adam’s apple in the center.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
To many Washingtonians, Moyers is one of the squarest guys in town.
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
The ant experiences acceleration exceeding 1300 meters per second squared before becoming tangled in the web.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
And she adds: “The court’s apparently oblivious insistence to the contrary today cannot be squared with what Callais said on its face just over one month ago.”
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
Following a push by the City striker, the two men squared up to each other, with foreheads pressed together.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
“But I think the market has gone to optimism squared, and I think we are a little bit out over the skis at this point.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026
Hyacinth squared her shoulders and knocked on the door.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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
There has been only one previous case of siblings squaring off against each other at the World Cup,, external and it happened in back-to-back tournaments.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 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
Andrews Tetteh raced down the left on the break, squaring for Konstantinos Karetsas, who produced a superb finish.
From Barron's ● Nov. 15, 2025
“Nessy would like to try out for the school pageant, and I say she oughta,” Pop Pop proudly announces, squaring his shoulders.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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