square inch
Americannoun
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It looked like every square inch of his hide had a monkey glued to it.
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Though each farm there was no more than a shack and a square of land, Calvin’s parcel mysteriously yielded more food per square inch than any other farm in the area.
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“Every square inch of this place has to be productive,” Yeh says.
Through one of them, I see a sea of glittering yellow sand, with people taking up virtually every square inch of it.
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Beyond a certain point—roughly 800 square millimeters, or 1.25 square inches—the laws of light and light speed prohibit larger designs.
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