blocky
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And the cartoonish portrayal of combat using childlike blocky figures helps to sanitize gritty images of war, helping it to get past social media filters—and pushing it far beyond Iran’s borders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
The furniture company known for its Swedish meatballs and blocky “Kallax” shelving units has found a home inside the old Helms Bakery complex in Culver City.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
His colors are as intense as Münter’s, but his forms are freer, less blocky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
Even the logo jumps out like a birthday cake topper, with the number “70” alternately blocky and rounded as if constructed out of frosting.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
The stories Eddie had jotted down in his goofy, blocky handwriting, from his own silly creations to the fables Nana used to tell us when we were younger, when she’d come up to visit.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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The tweaking was in the details: the altered check, the blockier logo.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2018
These authors also suggested that C. megalodon had a deeper, blockier skull than the Great white shark Carcharodon carcharias.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 6, 2013
Sadly, what we can probably expect, is another Skyline or Battlefield Los Angeles, just with blockier aliens, who slowly advance towards Earth in a predictable rectangular formation.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2011
They were all a little blockier than the human parts they were meant to correspond to, but they were recognizable.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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