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brick

[brik] / brɪk /
NOUN
block
Synonyms


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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

The shooting took place in Wedela, a semi-rural township of brick houses and small businesses, surrounded by wide expanses of land used for mining.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 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

They were almost at the corner, where the small brick library building was set in the middle of a big green lawn.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

That’s why in Miami last year we built 10 full-size Lego Formula One cars, with nearly 400,000 bricks in each, and put all 20 drivers in them for the driver’s parade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

"They took the lead off my neighbour's side of the chimney, which caused bricks to fall into his attic and the rain to go into his house," she told the BBC.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu said investigators noticed seven bricks had gone missing earlier this year.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

In the 2010s he saw the potential for plastic bricks to become “The Lego Movie” and for adapting Stephen King’s “It” with a focus on the book’s children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

They passed farmhouses, barns and an occasional weathered gray shack raised off the ground on piles of bricks.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

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

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

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

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

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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