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cubicle

[kyoo-bi-kuhl] / ˈkju bɪ kəl /


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Maybe this is why I have long treated “Ask a Manager” as both advice column and anthropological expedition behind the cubicle wall, where completely ordinary behaviors can become freighted with professional meaning.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Hunter knows that the title might seem “absurdly grand” for a play in which two single dads sit around a cubicle talking at length about loan paperwork and interest rates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

"He was in a cubicle, he could have been looking at any child, not just mine. I can't get it out my head."

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

As imagined by director Travis Knight—best known for another toys-to-screen saga, 2018’s “Transformers” sequel “Bumblebee”—and a battalion of screenwriters, the new He-Man, lost prince from the planet Eternia, is a meek cubicle dweller named Adam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

I stood behind him as he opened the door to my room and saw over his shoulder the desolate, windowless cubicle.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

The companies outfitted the event with cubicles, vintage computers and plenty of Post-its.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

In the case of public toilets, such a justification "does not appear to exist" since the cost of building, maintaining and cleaning cubicles and urinals is basically the same, the professor said.

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

Stasevska, 41, walks from the ornate foyer of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, with its emerald green carpets and gleaming chandeliers, to the more ordinary hallways and cubicles of L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

In the men’s room, I entered one of the cubicles and locked the door.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin




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