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  • And even if they were never beautiful, those square-edged sixties buildings had radiated—at least it seemed then—a kind of benign medicinal authority.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • Father and son, united in frustration at how a Black Eyed Pea could display such a poor understanding of the square-edged symmetry that underpins Lego's genius, empty a box of Lego on to the kitchen table and set forth on making our own hat.

    How to get ahead with a Lego hat Leo Hickman 2010

  • It all flies down the conveyor belts, four hundred tons a day, assembly lines of garbage, sorted, compressed and baled, transformed in the end to square-edged units, products again, wire-bound and smartly stacked and ready to be marketed.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • It all flies down the conveyor belts, four hundred tons a day, assembly lines of garbage, sorted, compressed and baled, transformed in the end to square-edged units, products again, wire-bound and smartly stacked and ready to be marketed.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Life blogger Susiej uses leftover boxes, wide plastic tubs, and other square-edged containers to group similar items, then simply pulls that box when she knows what she needs to pull out.

    Make Fridge Items Easier to Find with Boxes | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • It all flies down the conveyor belts, four hundred tons a day, assembly lines of garbage, sorted, compressed and baled, transformed in the end to square-edged units, products again, wire-bound and smartly stacked and ready to be marketed.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • But if what you want is square edges, why bother making anything other than a square-edged cake?

    The Great Cupcake Cake Debate Continues Jen 2008

  • In the dim light of various indicator globes, Pausert surveyed what could only be the prison kitchens-a gloomy hall of square-edged shadows and great cauldrons'smelling of grease and old boiled greens-.

    The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • The thumbnail was tiny, square-edged, in need of cleaning.

    Devil's Waltz Kellerman, Jonathan 1992

  • However, a cut on R-seven aligns perfectly with a square-edged defect on R-six.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

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