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cubicle

[kyoo-bi-kuhl] / ˈkju bɪ kəl /


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Loktev’s friends had become mine too — their personalities, politics and future prospects as important to my understanding of the world as if they worked in the next cubicle or lived on the next block.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

"He was in a cubicle, he could have been looking at any child, not just mine. I can't get it out my head."

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

I opened it and found myself reading a familiar passage about the protagonist Winston Smith’s cubicle and the slot in the wall nicknamed the “memory hole.”

From Salon May 31, 2026

Lau's cubicle is one of nine in a single unit, separated by thin wooden dividers, in a 60-year-old building in one of Hong Kong's poorest neighbourhoods, Sham Shui Po.

From Barron's May 28, 2026

My sisters, Deborah and Theresa, slept in one and I slept in the small cubicle by the door.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, many leaders claimed that effective teamwork required remote workers to return to their cubicles.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

From identical assigned cubicles to domineering executive suites to vast entrance lobbies apparently designed to remind you that you aren’t insignificant, the message is clear.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

The new rules do not apply to notorious "coffin homes", cubicles stacked on top of each other like bunk beds in shabby dormitories.

From Barron's May 28, 2026

Stasevska, 41, walks from the ornate foyer of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, with its emerald green carpets and gleaming chandeliers, to the more ordinary hallways and cubicles of L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2026

And he and Harry let themselves into adjoining cubicles.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling




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