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brick

[brik] / brɪk /
NOUN
block
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Leo will come right up to the doors of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a neat brick church where workers are racing against the clock to build a stage for his arrival.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

“I have such fond memories in this quintessential New York apartment with the exposed brick, tin ceilings and many original pre-war features.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

The price of that brick has gone up a lot in recent years, and just this year, it more than doubled, from $4.95 to $10, over the loud objection of Equifax.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

She also painted the doors a warm brick color, saying it “made it prettier.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

The brick walls snap shut, sealing me, Alex, JP, and Cocoa in the darkened tunnel.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

The children used it for Lego bricks, Robbins folded laundry on it, and a plywood covering allowed it to function as a work surface as her business grew.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Opening the case on Monday, prosecutor Alexandra Healy KC said Boor had been walking towards some shops with a friend, Chelsea Mustafa, when the bricks fell from a crane.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu said investigators noticed seven bricks had gone missing earlier this year.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

In the 2010s he saw the potential for plastic bricks to become “The Lego Movie” and for adapting Stephen King’s “It” with a focus on the book’s children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

I pick up a twig from the dirt under the bush behind me and trace the cracks in the bricks.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

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

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

Except when I glance at him, I see that his face has bricked up and I can tell running away is not part of his modus operandi.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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

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

“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


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