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A brick archway, leading into Harvard Yard, bearing an etched inscription:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

If you do not own a bacon press, use a smaller heavy skillet, a foil-wrapped kitchen brick or simply a spatula and some patience.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

White nets stretch high across the front of brick buildings in Pakistan's northern border region, a tactic borrowed from the Ukrainian battlefield to protect police against the latest militant threat -- drones.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

The brick wall of the house, in a quiet cul-de-sac of detached homes, was caved in near the front door with smoke marks visible to the upper floor.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

The brick paths wind around the buildings and lead to the massive volcano that towers over everything at the far end.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

“We’re opening new offices. We’ve got lots of other plans across the region. Laws of physics of bricks and mortar will always mean it takes time.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Stonework and larger bricks, some weighing up to 850kg, were removed from the site and have been stored for future use.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

It later emerged he had been negotiating his plea for months, a fact which she said "hit me like a tonne of bricks".

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

“Hey,” I say, approaching the picnic table, noticing my feet feel like bricks.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

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

But in the final minutes Tuesday, with Iowa refusing to bow out quietly, Yates bricked two critical free throws.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

Though its only window had been bricked in years before, one wall still boasted a hearth big enough to hold a kettle, and there was an actual privy built into a comer nook.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Ventura also isn’t full of bugs or glitches that are ruining workflows or bricking computers, so there’s that.

From The Verge ● Jul. 14, 2022

After Sony announced that it would no longer be supporting updates for Aibo in 2014—effectively bricking the little fellows—a Buddhist temple in Japan began holding funerals for hundreds of the decommissioned robot dogs.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2021

“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