bricks

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The track surface of crushed rock and tar was so damaging to tires that later that year workers laid some 3.2 million bricks over the 2.5-mile oval—thus its enduring nickname, “The Brickyard.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Two teenage sisters from Gaza have won an environmental award for turning rubble into reusable bricks, saying they wanted to "turn destruction into something useful".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

In the previous year, his “Trace” exhibition at San Francisco’s Alcatraz featured portraits of people he considers activists, prisoners of conscience, or advocates of free speech, created with nearly a million toy bricks.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

Meanwhile, portable phones, at first the size of bricks, were introduced in 1992.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

At home, you can put bricks on either side of a toilet and squat over it.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri