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cubicle

[kyoo-bi-kuhl] / ˈkju bɪ kəl /


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He scoffs at the idea of earning a living in a cubicle.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

As evidence, Karen pulls out a decades-old photo of my newsroom cubicle with its remarkable mounds of documents, folders, newspapers and books on every horizontal surface.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

I opened it and found myself reading a familiar passage about the protagonist Winston Smith’s cubicle and the slot in the wall nicknamed the “memory hole.”

From Salon May 31, 2026

Lau's cubicle is one of nine in a single unit, separated by thin wooden dividers, in a 60-year-old building in one of Hong Kong's poorest neighbourhoods, Sham Shui Po.

From Barron's May 28, 2026

Seeing Doreen supported in my arms and silent except for a few wet hiccups, the woman strode away down the hall to her cubicle with its ancient Singer sewing machine and white ironing board.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

In Gamper's view, women should not be financially disadvantaged because of their anatomy or because they need cubicles for safety reasons, for example.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

Similarly, leaders can assign teams a conference room or group of cubicles for the duration of a project, letting them reconfigure, put things on the walls, make it theirs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

The new rules do not apply to notorious "coffin homes", cubicles stacked on top of each other like bunk beds in shabby dormitories.

From Barron's May 28, 2026

The brightly coloured cubicles have floor-to-ceiling doors, and some have sinks inside.

From BBC May 21, 2026

The cubicles we had were too small for anything you might call “living.”

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston




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