brick
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"It's a disgrace and we find as parents we are constantly facing brick walls when it comes to issues around special educational needs."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
While renowned for its red brick buildings and lush green lawns, UCLA’s campus is also notorious for its steep hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The future was coming on fast, and it was dumb as a brick.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
The streets are littered with glass and chunks of brick.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
They watched the girl fly up the porch steps and disappear into the brick house.
From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene
"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
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
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
Tariq drops a handful of Lego bricks so they clatter on the floor.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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
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
Except when I glance at him, I see that his face has bricked up and I can tell running away is not part of his modus operandi.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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
Three years later he was bricking under pressure again, going two for 13 to send the 2018 Warriors back to the Finals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
“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
