brick
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Quintero helps maintain a rusted pump jack for the state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, on a patio adjacent to his brick shack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
The Systemiq research estimates that roughly a third of Himalayan glacier melt is driven by black carbon, much of it originating from brick kilns in the plains.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
She followed the boys to the Winstons’ brick mailbox.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
“We’re opening new offices. We’ve got lots of other plans across the region. Laws of physics of bricks and mortar will always mean it takes time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
It has meant Ellesmere park ranger, Lee Fraser, has been able to go into the Mere with volunteers and pick out litter, such as bricks, pottery and mobile phones.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Stonework and larger bricks, some weighing up to 850kg, were removed from the site and have been stored for future use.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
"We take on that cost ourselves," he said, adding that rising prices for oil, a key component in plastic, had also not affected the price of Lego's bricks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
In the alley outside, I sank against the wall, pressing my cheek to the bricks.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
The drawback, as many commenters online noted, is that this machine-by-machine approach isn’t much help for organizations with hundreds or thousands of bricked PCs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
I don’t remember much about our visit there, except for how stunned we were, each of us bricked inside our private grief.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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
Now, Amazon is following a well-established pattern of companies bricking smart home hardware because they no longer want to support its ecosystem.
From The Verge ● May 30, 2022
“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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