brick
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“I still think there is this bottom-up shareholder reform story that’s coming through brick by brick, day by day,” he said on The Markets Goldman Sachs podcast, which was published on Friday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
As a result, the stadium criteria was updated last month and "no longer permits solid brick, breeze block or concrete barriers around pitches".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 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
Ornamental bay windows protrude from the sooty brick exterior that I estimate to be seventeenth century.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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
Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu said investigators noticed seven bricks had gone missing earlier this year.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 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 new range includes bricks and figures that can react to movement, play sound and light up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Sturdy red bricks adjoin pale stone accented by ornamental flourishes.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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
The heist has captivated L.A.’s jewelry industry, whose epicenter is St. Vincent Court, a bricked alley in downtown where jewelers congregate to trade gossip between sips of espresso.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 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
“It looks like a tunnel that’s been bricked up,” Danny said, trying to catch his breath.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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
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
“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
