brick
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The living room is anchored by a bold, black brick fireplace that brings warmth to the area both literally and visually.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Fletcher also said he is worried the ban on concrete, breeze block and brick walls does not cover all levels of the game and wants that explored urgently by the authorities.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
That same night, roughly seven miles away, several bronze plaques were stripped from a brick wall welcoming visitors to the historic district of Old Towne Orange.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
A brick archway, leading into Harvard Yard, bearing an etched inscription:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The cold was like leaping into a brick wall: it kicked the breath from his lungs.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Jones' letter comes months after Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley urged the government to compel all phone companies to make stolen devices "unusable bricks".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
"There are quite a lot of bricks out on the side now already and we have only been at it less than an hour", he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
"We take on that cost ourselves," he said, adding that rising prices for oil, a key component in plastic, had also not affected the price of Lego's bricks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
The new range includes bricks and figures that can react to movement, play sound and light up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The bricks were stained with soot and grime.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
Her 1984 movie “Rhinestone,” a romantic comedy with Sylvester Stallone, bricked at the box office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
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
Davis bricked hooks and layups in the paint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
“It looks like a tunnel that’s been bricked up,” Danny said, trying to catch his breath.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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
