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cube

[kyoob] / kjub /
NOUN
six-sided solid
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Many of its holdings fit the definition of a melting ice cube.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

There sits the studio, an austere black cube jutting into the countryside, guarded by a giant sculpture of a gorilla.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

About the size of a cookie, each array contains eight quartz corner cube prisms mounted inside a dome shaped aluminum frame.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

Each item -- described online as a "sculpture" -- is sealed inside a tiny plastic cube to avoid leaking or smells.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

Then he grabbed an ice cube from the cooler, balanced it on his head, and stuck his cap back on.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

At a Hilton Hotel bar near Tokyo, bartender Shingo Miyachi prepares a negroni with one of Kuramoto Ice's big, clear cubes.

From Barron's Sep. 6, 2026

"Liquid water is denser than ice, which makes ice cubes float. Jon's finding means that diamond would float in liquid carbon at high pressures."

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

You might think I’m an expert packer with all of this globe-trotting, but I struggle like the rest of us, even with packing cubes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

The newly designed white French loudspeakers suspended over the Bowl stage along with ground-level white cubes of super-effective subwoofers have clean, unobtrusive lines that well fit the shell.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 2026

Fickle gnomes control the weather, and an air conditioner is powered by a team of squirrels, their cheeks packed with ice cubes.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Lemon-marinated chicken breast is cubed and folded in, while sweet onion gets a quick pickle in lemon juice, white balsamic vinegar, sugar and salt until it loses its bite but keeps its snap.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

"It's very sandy ground, access, 7,000 metre cubed of material in there approximately, but that's not when you've dug the hole - when you dig the hole and refill it, you could double that."

From BBC Jan. 14, 2026

Renderings of the structure, which is situated in Symphony Park, show a cubed modernist building with a large awning that stretches over a bustling entry plaza to provide shade.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 17, 2025

"One microgram per meter cubed might sound fairly small, but we have to think about how people are exposed to wildfire smoke," Casey said.

From Science Daily Nov. 25, 2024

It smelled good—pieces of dried fish drifting in yellow sauce alongside the greens and cubed yams.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If meat needs cubing, shredding or portioning, now is the moment.

From Salon Sep. 9, 2025

“The speed cubing community has saved our lives — it literally saved Max’s life and our lives.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2023

“The deeper I go into the realm of cubing technique, the more I find interest in pushing the boundaries of what’s possible there,” he said.

From Seattle Times Jan. 26, 2023

The volume of a cube is calculated by cubing the edge length.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

Superficial measures are derived by squaring those of length; and measures of capacity by cubing them.

From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone




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