blocky
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And the cartoonish portrayal of combat using childlike blocky figures helps to sanitize gritty images of war, helping it to get past social media filters—and pushing it far beyond Iran’s borders.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
The furniture company known for its Swedish meatballs and blocky “Kallax” shelving units has found a home inside the old Helms Bakery complex in Culver City.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
To keep it from dwarfing its 19th-century neighbors, he broke up its mass into separate blocky pavilions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
They are described as large dogs "with a muscular body and blocky head, suggesting great strength and power".
From BBC • Jul. 8, 2025
Trent was almost a head shorter than me, with close-cropped black hair, blocky black glasses, and a nose that turned up sharply at the end.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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