brick
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The brick stack has hundreds of those toaster-like heating elements throughout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The prosecutor's office is already investigating a criminal complaint regarding the 958,000-euro renovation of the tower's surrounding 700-metre wall, for which workers were painting a brick-effect concrete facade instead of laying brick cladding.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
"I think that was necessary. The analogy we had used was that I was throwing myself at a brick wall," she added.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Built in 1997, the brick abode includes a fireplace, two stories, and a pool outside.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
That evening after supper I bumped over the brick streets to the Koornstra house.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
"We knew from the behaviour of the hospital in 2016 - and it's not the hospital, not the bricks and mortar - but the people," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“From a creativity standpoint, kids’ play will be fundamentally changed by these smart bricks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The storage bricks will provide industrial heat once again as the beer is pasteurized, and steam is sprayed over the bottles to kill microorganisms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
She said: "One day I just researched it and found out there wasn't a single bricks and mortar one in the entire UK and thought, 'that's crazy. That needs to change'."
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
“Summer,” he said to me once, “drop some of them bricks you keep hauling around with you. Life just ain’t that heavy.”
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
When the CrowdStrike software bug bricked 8.5 million computers around the world on 19 July, some of the first people to notice the effects were air travellers.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2024
Meanwhile, Spotify is also dealing with a class-action suit from aggrieved subscribers who bought its beloved “Car Thing” audio gadget, all existing models of which will be bricked by the end of the year.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2024
Boogie Ellis bricked an array of open looks, also finishing four of 14.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2023
Over the years these incumbents have successfully bricked themselves off from domestic and especially foreign competition.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
Though its only window had been bricked in years before, one wall still boasted a hearth big enough to hold a kettle, and there was an actual privy built into a comer nook.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
It is probably still best to leave Watch betas to the brave though — some reports of bricking describe an infinitely spinning loading screen, which this process may not be able to fix.
From The Verge ● Mar. 15, 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
