brick
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The price of that brick has gone up a lot in recent years, and just this year, it more than doubled, from $4.95 to $10, over the loud objection of Equifax.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
A. In many ways, the campus feels the same—the curving brick paths, the historic pre-Civil War era buildings and the genteel feel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The newly opened Santa Monica comedy club sheds the beloved brick and velvet curtain staples of the industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The living room is anchored by a bold, black brick fireplace that brings warmth to the area both literally and visually.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
But others were brick and stone with wooden roofs towering over her head.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
The 68-year-old was frightened and found it hard to sleep after a rogue builder left her roof with dislodged bricks and blocked gutters.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The prosecution alleges there had been no risk assessment for lifting pallets of bricks so close to members of the public, and claimed Higgins Homes had not considered the safety of people outside the site.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu said investigators noticed seven bricks had gone missing earlier this year.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
In the 2010s he saw the potential for plastic bricks to become “The Lego Movie” and for adapting Stephen King’s “It” with a focus on the book’s children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
In all that wasteland, I saw one human being, an old woman poking at a heap of bricks.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Her 1984 movie “Rhinestone,” a romantic comedy with Sylvester Stallone, bricked at the box office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
An Australian library has welcomed home a book roughly 150 years overdue after it was discovered inside a tea crate bricked into a sealed fireplace.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Brick has an app, but there’s nothing to do in it except select which apps get bricked and then activate the bricking functionality.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
He and his team rebuilt the building’s eastern flank, now containing rehearsal spaces, re-creating the colonial-style roof, beams and walls while opening up breezeways that had been bricked in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
“It looks like a tunnel that’s been bricked up,” Danny said, trying to catch his breath.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Brick has an app, but there’s nothing to do in it except select which apps get bricked and then activate the bricking functionality.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
Unless they agreed, users were blocked from access to the Roku menu and apps, essentially bricking their devices.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
Is your smartphone inexplicably bricking whenever you try to open your favorite app?
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023
Three years later he was bricking under pressure again, going two for 13 to send the 2018 Warriors back to the Finals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
“He must have told her about the tunnel, because when I went by it this morning, the legionnaires were bricking it closed.”
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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