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Among the brickbats was carmakers’ dropping of Apple CarPlay, in favor of their own operating systems and connected services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

But functioning democracies require people willing to enter public life and take with it the brickbats that follow.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2024

And two brickbats were awarded to carmaker BMW, one of those involving a partnership with Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

Roos also expressed admiration: “Every day people around him were throwing brickbats at him, saying: “Why are you doing this?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

I looked around and saw several brickbats scattered about.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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