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cube

[kyoob] / kjub /
NOUN
six-sided solid
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There, buyers can shop for Stellantis vehicles using their smartphones and a giant cube with four 10-foot by 10-foot screens.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

About the size of a cookie, each array contains eight quartz corner cube prisms mounted inside a dome shaped aluminum frame.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

Each item -- described online as a "sculpture" -- is sealed inside a tiny plastic cube to avoid leaking or smells.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

Chris Scullion, deputy editor of Video Games Chronicle, bought the cube seven months ago for his daughter.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

Laleh always took her tea with three cubes of sugar and one cube of ice, and she always clanged the teaspoon against the sides of her glass teacup as she stirred.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

"Liquid water is denser than ice, which makes ice cubes float. Jon's finding means that diamond would float in liquid carbon at high pressures."

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

Toss 2 cups of small sourdough cubes with 2 tablespoons melted butter, 1 tablespoon sugar, ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom and a pinch of kosher salt.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

The newly designed white French loudspeakers suspended over the Bowl stage along with ground-level white cubes of super-effective subwoofers have clean, unobtrusive lines that well fit the shell.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 2026

McDonald’s frequently calibrates its machines to ensure the right amount of Coke syrup concentrate in its sodas to help retain their flavor even after ice cubes melted in the drinks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

Some physicists thought that atoms might be cube shaped, because cubes can be packed together so neatly without any wasted space.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

"It's very sandy ground, access, 7,000 metre cubed of material in there approximately, but that's not when you've dug the hole - when you dig the hole and refill it, you could double that."

From BBC Jan. 14, 2026

Renderings of the structure, which is situated in Symphony Park, show a cubed modernist building with a large awning that stretches over a bustling entry plaza to provide shade.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 17, 2025

Elote-Style Loaded Fries with Chicken: Crisp fries piled high with sweet corn, a drizzle of mayo, cotija cheese, cubed grilled chicken, pickled red onion and fresh cilantro.

From Salon Sep. 16, 2025

"One microgram per meter cubed might sound fairly small, but we have to think about how people are exposed to wildfire smoke," Casey said.

From Science Daily Nov. 25, 2024

Rather than normal meal kits, most of the food was cubed protein bar material, which would still be edible even if Iris failed to deploy its tumble balloons and impacted at incredible speed.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

If meat needs cubing, shredding or portioning, now is the moment.

From Salon Sep. 9, 2025

Though the achievements have been notable, Schwan Park said speed cubing has helped his son learn to socialize, make friends and expand his horizons.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2023

“The deeper I go into the realm of cubing technique, the more I find interest in pushing the boundaries of what’s possible there,” he said.

From Seattle Times Jan. 26, 2023

His parents, who encouraged his gift for cubing, hoped participating in competitions would help him learn social and emotional skills.

From Washington Post Jul. 29, 2020

Superficial measures are derived by squaring those of length; and measures of capacity by cubing them.

From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone




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