brick
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In collaboration with artist Niki Haas, the space features elegant marble furnishings while its exterior is classic brick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
While the exterior features a traditional red brick facade, the interior follows a much funkier black-and-white theme throughout the main living spaces.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Its carefully planned streets and advanced brick drainage systems indicate that resources were directed toward shared infrastructure rather than monuments celebrating rulers or religious elites.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
Originally designed to evoke a classic Greek column, the structure's limestone, brick and terra-cotta exterior features ornamentation including lion heads, wreaths, eagles, and faces.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
When the Washingtons lived in the three-story brick house, it was one of Philadelphia’s grandest residences, surrounded by brick walls.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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"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
The bricks and tags are meant to “get the action going, get the inner movie going, and prime and prompt the kid to keep going,” he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The Star Wars-themed sets that include smart bricks range in price from $70 to $160, along with lower-priced “Smart Play compatible” sets with digital-tag pieces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
She said: "One day I just researched it and found out there wasn't a single bricks and mortar one in the entire UK and thought, 'that's crazy. That needs to change'."
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
I let myself walk back toward home for a few minutes, figuring I’ll start jogging again once my legs no longer feel like bricks.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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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
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
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
Tennessee did not attempt a second-half free throw until 4:12 remained, at which point Jahmai Mashack bricked both attempts.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023
The cobblestone house is topped off with Venetian-red roofing and a bricked chimney that reaches to the sky.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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
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
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