brick
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The future was coming on fast, and it was dumb as a brick.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
He also criticised delays within the compensation system, saying even straightforward claims could take years to progress and that victims were often left "banging your head against the brick wall".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Video of the fire aftermath on Sunday showed scores of homes burned to the ground, with only their brick fireplaces and foundations remaining, while other houses nearby escaped practically unscathed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
He tweeted a video that showed an armed man wearing a ski mask and a backpack passing under the brick archway of Nancy’s front porch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The brick is just shy of hitting me.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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
It later emerged he had been negotiating his plea for months, a fact which she said "hit me like a tonne of bricks".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Swansea Bay Health Board recommended using stones, bricks or a dedicated stand to prevent heat transferring to the sand.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Lego strikes back against screens—with chips in bricks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Otto panicked, his heart plummeting to the ground with the loose bricks he’d dragged down.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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
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
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
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
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
