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square inch

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noun

  1. a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. in 2 , sq. in.


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“Every square inch of this place has to be productive,” Yeh says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

They’re working hard to make each square inch explorable, creating, at the time of the interview, a sandcastle to be hidden in the restroom.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2025

“Her love for the children just reached every square inch of the school,” said Skipper, the Cahaba Heights parent of a second grader who moved to the neighborhood specifically for the school.

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2024

The military measures the force of blast waves in pounds of pressure per square inch, and the current safety guidelines say that anything below 4 PSI is safe for the brain.

From New York Times • May 2, 2024

He has studied every square inch of it.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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