cubes

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Not so the computer, which Jobs decreed had to take the form of a perfect cube made of magnesium-alloy—nevermind that cubes are notoriously difficult to manufacture and magnesium tends to cause paint to bubble.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

People munched on cheese cubes and cheesecake bites or fanned themselves in the shade, watching on big screen televisions as the old guard said their goodbyes inside the council chambers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Geared toward mathematically gifted children, it is named after the Hardy-Ramanujan number, the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of perfect cubes in different ways:

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

If you want frozen garlic — already sectioned and ready-to-use — Trader Joe’s carries the Dorot brand of frozen crushed garlic cubes.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

Shine light on a million moving cubes and you only get a hazy, moving shadow, a molecular version of television static.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee