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While renowned for its red brick buildings and lush green lawns, UCLA’s campus is also notorious for its steep hills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

The future was coming on fast, and it was dumb as a brick.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

He also criticised delays within the compensation system, saying even straightforward claims could take years to progress and that victims were often left "banging your head against the brick wall".

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

“It’s a lot brighter. People feel a lot safer,” Long said outside his tidy brick house, near several others that were recently renovated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

But others were brick and stone with wooden roofs towering over her head.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

Rescuers formed human chains to remove bricks and masonry, stopping every few minutes to listen for signs of life from those trapped below.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Swansea Bay Health Board recommended using stones, bricks or a dedicated stand to prevent heat transferring to the sand.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

"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

They included bricks that would play snatches of the iconic theme song and emit coin-collecting sound effects as Mario characters moved around.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

First Leo made himself a forge out of mud bricks, each one baked with his own fiery hands.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

One person said their Charge 5 went "from perfect to non-functional overnight", while another said in a post made on Christmas Day that the update caused their device to be "completely bricked".

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2024

Tennessee did not attempt a second-half free throw until 4:12 remained, at which point Jahmai Mashack bricked both attempts.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023

The cobblestone house is topped off with Venetian-red roofing and a bricked chimney that reaches to the sky.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

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