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cinder block

NOUN
concrete building block
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Video of the rescue posted by the police department shows the Salinas Fire Department breaking down the wall and finding cinder block behind it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

The daughter of a traveling salesman, Flores grew up modestly in the cinder block hills of Catia, a hardscrabble district of western Caracas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

There, the boys frolic and dream amid cinder block walls.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

Some of the footage showed the Beach refugee camp, an area of squat, tightly packed cinder block houses, with washing hanging outside.

From Reuters ● Nov. 27, 2023

About a half-mile down Lacks Town Road, Cliff had me park in front of a cinder block and pressboard house that couldn’t have been more than three hundred square feet inside.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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