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square

adjective as in four-sided

adjective as in old-fashioned, conventional

noun as in person who is old-fashioned, conventional

noun as in municipal park

Strong match

Weak match

verb as in correspond, agree

verb as in pay off, satisfy

verb as in adapt, regulate

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For starters there are the 100,000 trillion photons arriving every second at every square centimeter of Earth’s dayside surface, after racing here from the outer envelope of a natural giant thermonuclear reactor we call the sun.

It makes the same prediction for spaces of every dimension — that in covering, say, 12-dimensional space using 12-dimensional “square” tiles, you will end up with at least two tiles that abut each other exactly.

Treating arid land with LNC costs $2 to $5 per square meter, far more than many farmers can afford.

Most of these were “gridworlds”—literally two-dimensional grids with objects in some squares.

The median sales price of homes in Cheesman Park is $350,000 with an average of $401 per square foot.

Some longtime local acquaintances are struggling to square the man they know with the ugly associations.

This last trip it had felt as if there were more cameras around Havana than Times Square.

Records describe this house as 6,916 square feet, with six bedrooms and eight bathrooms.

The international media had been waiting on Wenceslas Square since early afternoon.

In the afternoon, about a thousand people marched in protest through the largest Prague square, with police nowhere in sight.

Nowhere can be found a region capable of supporting a larger population to the square mile than Lombardy.

For years his lordship was seldom seen in London, the great house in Grosvenor Square was never opened.

She opened the door of a square room with large roses on the white wall-paper, and fine old mahogany furniture.

I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.

The building, which has five storeys, stands on three sides of a square courtyard, and faces into Edmund Street.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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