brick
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“I still think there is this bottom-up shareholder reform story that’s coming through brick by brick, day by day,” he said on The Markets Goldman Sachs podcast, which was published on Friday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
That same night, roughly seven miles away, several bronze plaques were stripped from a brick wall welcoming visitors to the historic district of Old Towne Orange.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
A brick archway, leading into Harvard Yard, bearing an etched inscription:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
Ornamental bay windows protrude from the sooty brick exterior that I estimate to be seventeenth century.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Opening the case on Monday, prosecutor Alexandra Healy KC said Boor had been walking towards some shops with a friend, Chelsea Mustafa, when the bricks fell from a crane.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
“We’re opening new offices. We’ve got lots of other plans across the region. Laws of physics of bricks and mortar will always mean it takes time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Jones' letter comes months after Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley urged the government to compel all phone companies to make stolen devices "unusable bricks".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
"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
Every day for two months the line of bullock carts came in laden with bricks and stones and cement, sheets of tin and corrugated iron, coils of rope and hemp.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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
Users affected by issues with the device have speculated that a faulty update from Sky could be the cause of "bricked" TVs.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2024
Meanwhile, Spotify is also dealing with a class-action suit from aggrieved subscribers who bought its beloved “Car Thing” audio gadget, all existing models of which will be bricked by the end of the year.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2024
The blocks are bricked off into what we call the Boardwalk.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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
Ventura also isn’t full of bugs or glitches that are ruining workflows or bricking computers, so there’s that.
From The Verge ● Jul. 14, 2022
“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
