brick
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She also painted the doors a warm brick color, saying it “made it prettier.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Quintero helps maintain a rusted pump jack for the state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, on a patio adjacent to his brick shack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“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
But others were brick and stone with wooden roofs towering over her head.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Opening the case on Monday, prosecutor Alexandra Healy KC said Boor had been walking towards some shops with a friend, Chelsea Mustafa, when the bricks fell from a crane.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
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
“We’re opening new offices. We’ve got lots of other plans across the region. Laws of physics of bricks and mortar will always mean it takes time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
They crossed a row of yellow bricks and reached the shushroom patch on the other side.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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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
Mother, Father, and I had one small room, with one small window, which was bricked up.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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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
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
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