of a definite form, shape, or character (often used in combination).
a U-shaped driveway.
designed to fit a particular form, body, or contour.
a shaped garment.
Furniture. having other than a plane surface.
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Reilly’s relationship with Eugene Boyle, a Bay Area Catholic priest and liberal activist known for supporting the Civil Rights Movement, shaped his political views.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
It’s shaped like a passport, similar to Google’s Pixel Fold, with a 5.5-inch external screen and a 7.6-inch display within.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
"We are trying to address that women are not small men - they're shaped differently."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Together, these patterns offer a rare view of how family relationships may have shaped authority, inheritance, and social rank within the settlement.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Mom had taken his painting of a rainbow and hung it on the refrigerator with a magnet shaped like a strawberry.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
Also appealing and true to its common name, but for brighter light: string of pearls, Senecio rowleyanus, a South African species with succulent pea-sized and -shaped leaves that cascade over a pot edge.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2021
Into that -shaped void has been thrust the third series of the French law and order procedural, Spiral.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2011
Since some people are convinced that dowsing, A B a method of finding underground water with a Y -shaped stick, is effective, but others condemn the procedure ~ mere superstition.
From SAT Tests
Tongue ovoid, barely notched behind and slightly free posteriorly; vomerine teeth 2-3, situated on -shaped elevations between round inner nares; openings to vocal sac large, one situated along inner posterior edge of each mandibular ramus.
From A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by Duellman, William E.
These were patterns made up of squares or -shaped lines interlaced and made to seem intricate, though originally simple.
From Architecture Classic and Early Christian by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)
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