brick
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Built into the undulating terrain are brick homes, shingled cottages and a longstanding dive bar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
River just keeps banging his head off the brick wall that is J.K.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The future was coming on fast, and it was dumb as a brick.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
The streets are littered with glass and chunks of brick.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The slippers were lined up on a sidewalk in front of a brick wall.
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
"We take on that cost ourselves," he said, adding that rising prices for oil, a key component in plastic, had also not affected the price of Lego's bricks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
There are many reasons why, but inflation has been key - from the price of land, to builders' wages and bricks.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Rescuers formed human chains to remove bricks and masonry, stopping every few minutes to listen for signs of life from those trapped below.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
"We knew from the behaviour of the hospital in 2016 - and it's not the hospital, not the bricks and mortar - but the people," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Poured out a whole river of red bricks.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
Her 1984 movie “Rhinestone,” a romantic comedy with Sylvester Stallone, bricked at the box office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
An Australian library has welcomed home a book roughly 150 years overdue after it was discovered inside a tea crate bricked into a sealed fireplace.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Brick has an app, but there’s nothing to do in it except select which apps get bricked and then activate the bricking functionality.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
One person said their Charge 5 went "from perfect to non-functional overnight", while another said in a post made on Christmas Day that the update caused their device to be "completely bricked".
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2024
Mother, Father, and I had one small room, with one small window, which was bricked up.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Unless they agreed, users were blocked from access to the Roku menu and apps, essentially bricking their devices.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
Is your smartphone inexplicably bricking whenever you try to open your favorite app?
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023
Now, Amazon is following a well-established pattern of companies bricking smart home hardware because they no longer want to support its ecosystem.
From The Verge ● May 30, 2022
After Sony announced that it would no longer be supporting updates for Aibo in 2014—effectively bricking the little fellows—a Buddhist temple in Japan began holding funerals for hundreds of the decommissioned robot dogs.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2021
“He must have told her about the tunnel, because when I went by it this morning, the legionnaires were bricking it closed.”
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
