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brick

[brik] / brɪk /
NOUN
block
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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

"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

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

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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