brick
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A ticket for a "whist drive" - a card game event hosted by the palace on 14 April 1949 - was found embedded in a lump of brick.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
White nets stretch high across the front of brick buildings in Pakistan's northern border region, a tactic borrowed from the Ukrainian battlefield to protect police against the latest militant threat -- drones.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
I should have done it sooner: cooking the chicken beneath a brick leaves the skin remarkably crisp while the meat stays juicy and flavorful.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Built into the undulating terrain are brick homes, shingled cottages and a longstanding dive bar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
I knew better than to expect anything as grand as my old library with its brick exterior, white columns, and stone statues posing out front.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
It has meant Ellesmere park ranger, Lee Fraser, has been able to go into the Mere with volunteers and pick out litter, such as bricks, pottery and mobile phones.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Stonework and larger bricks, some weighing up to 850kg, were removed from the site and have been stored for future use.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The share of renewable and recycled materials bought and used to make the colourful plastic bricks continues to grow, Lego said, without providing specific numbers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 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
There were the rough grooves of the bricks lining the wall behind her headboard.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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
The drawback, as many commenters online noted, is that this machine-by-machine approach isn’t much help for organizations with hundreds or thousands of bricked PCs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
I don’t remember much about our visit there, except for how stunned we were, each of us bricked inside our private grief.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
During this summer of bricking, a few thoughts refused to leave me.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
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
Three years later he was bricking under pressure again, going two for 13 to send the 2018 Warriors back to the Finals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
“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
