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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

It is also smart to buy “overrated,” he says—getting a 100-watt brick to charge a 66-watt device, for instance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

"I think that was necessary. The analogy we had used was that I was throwing myself at a brick wall," she added.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

The brick abode features five bedrooms across 6,516 square feet on over 6 acres.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

There was no stopping me as I crossed the wide brick station in seconds.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

"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

The bricks and tags are meant to “get the action going, get the inner movie going, and prime and prompt the kid to keep going,” he adds.

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

General Haig ordered his brave troops to battle on until the rubble of bricks that had once been the village of Passchendaele was finally captured by the Canadians on November 10, 1917.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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

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

Over the years these incumbents have successfully bricked themselves off from domestic and especially foreign competition.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022

Davis then bricked two free throws, echoing his miss on a potential winning free throw with 3.7 seconds left in regulation of what became an overtime loss for the Lakers at Philadelphia last Friday.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2022

I don’t remember much about our visit there, except for how stunned we were, each of us bricked inside our private grief.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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