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blocky

[blok-ee] / ˈblɒk i /


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His colors are as intense as Münter’s, but his forms are freer, less blocky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

She painted colorful, flat, blocky, nearly abstract shapes, but often with a distortion or a twist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

A stone’s throw from the Brandenburg Gate, DZ’s stone facade aligns seamlessly with its blocky neighbors on Pariser Platz, providing little hint of its shocking interior.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

Rolling hills and a lush carpet of trees surrounded blocky beige buildings with slit windows.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

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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