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cubicle

[kyoo-bi-kuhl] / ˈkju bɪ kəl /


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I once had a news director who, in the midst of marital issues, carried a guitar from cubicle to cubicle like the world’s saddest bard.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Loktev’s friends had become mine too — their personalities, politics and future prospects as important to my understanding of the world as if they worked in the next cubicle or lived on the next block.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

"He was in a cubicle, he could have been looking at any child, not just mine. I can't get it out my head."

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

As imagined by director Travis Knight—best known for another toys-to-screen saga, 2018’s “Transformers” sequel “Bumblebee”—and a battalion of screenwriters, the new He-Man, lost prince from the planet Eternia, is a meek cubicle dweller named Adam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

He crouched down and peered through the gap at the bottom of the cubicle, just in time to see a pair of booted feet climbing into the toilet next door.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Instead, shoppers exit curtained-off cubicles to share floor-to-ceiling communal mirrors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

In the case of public toilets, such a justification "does not appear to exist" since the cost of building, maintaining and cleaning cubicles and urinals is basically the same, the professor said.

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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