brick
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The living room is anchored by a bold, black brick fireplace that brings warmth to the area both literally and visually.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 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
The Systemiq research estimates that roughly a third of Himalayan glacier melt is driven by black carbon, much of it originating from brick kilns in the plains.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The cold was like leaping into a brick wall: it kicked the breath from his lungs.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
The area is also shown to be covered in bricks which have fallen away from the property, which was cordoned off to the public after the crash.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 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
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
Similarly, Lessius and his successors say that if you throw a quantity of bricks down on the ground you will never get a palace.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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
When the CrowdStrike software bug bricked 8.5 million computers around the world on 19 July, some of the first people to notice the effects were air travellers.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2024
They went down the long dark wall of the mill, the windows bricked up.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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
It is probably still best to leave Watch betas to the brave though — some reports of bricking describe an infinitely spinning loading screen, which this process may not be able to fix.
From The Verge ● Mar. 15, 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
