brick
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He was an accomplished artist, inventor and entrepreneur and the accidental inventor of the modern blast-furnace brick.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The prosecutor's office is already investigating a criminal complaint regarding the 958,000-euro renovation of the tower's surrounding 700-metre wall, for which workers were painting a brick-effect concrete facade instead of laying brick cladding.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Built in 1997, the brick abode includes a fireplace, two stories, and a pool outside.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“Richmond has this really sort of amazing legacy of masonry and brick facades,” Diamond said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Crews have hammered up long wooden huts on the lawn, with more in progress, and they’re adding brick walls around the huts.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
"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
It functions as a “platform,” meaning smart bricks are interchangeable between sets, and can adapt to different functions.
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
The film stops several yellow bricks short of erecting a temple to the sacrifices of fame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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
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
Davis bricked hooks and layups in the paint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 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
Though its only window had been bricked in years before, one wall still boasted a hearth big enough to hold a kettle, and there was an actual privy built into a comer nook.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
