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cubicle

[kyoo-bi-kuhl] / ˈkju bɪ kəl /


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As evidence, Karen pulls out a decades-old photo of my newsroom cubicle with its remarkable mounds of documents, folders, newspapers and books on every horizontal surface.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

That is something I would have cheered for when I moved into my first cubicle at 22.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

I opened it and found myself reading a familiar passage about the protagonist Winston Smith’s cubicle and the slot in the wall nicknamed the “memory hole.”

From Salon May 31, 2026

"The office cubicle has trapped me again," he squawks on a rambunctious synth-driven stomper that's equal parts Kraftwerk and The Kaiser Chiefs.

From BBC May 8, 2026

It’s a triangular cubicle, if such a thing is possible.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

Even if cubicles were slightly more expensive to maintain or consumed more water, this would not necessarily be enough to justify a price difference compared with urinals, she added.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

In Gamper's view, women should not be financially disadvantaged because of their anatomy or because they need cubicles for safety reasons, for example.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

Similarly, leaders can assign teams a conference room or group of cubicles for the duration of a project, letting them reconfigure, put things on the walls, make it theirs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

Stasevska, 41, walks from the ornate foyer of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, with its emerald green carpets and gleaming chandeliers, to the more ordinary hallways and cubicles of L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2026

Short-walled cubicles take up most of the restaurant.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas




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