blockier; blockiest
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a shoe with a thick, blocky heel
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Meta’s Reality Labs division has racked up more than $70 billion in losses since 2021, according to Bloomberg, burning through cash on blocky virtual environments, glitchy avatars, expensive headsets, and a user base of approximately 38 people as of 2022.
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Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2025
About a year after the Meta pivot, an image of Zuck’s own blocky, dead-eyed visage from inside the metaverse went viral because of how shockingly mid the graphics still were after a year of work and billions of dollars to build it.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 4 Dec. 2025
In this show the palette shifted from the artist’s familiar Pepto-Bismol pink to slightly more somber shades, of saffron, eggplant, and rose; the colors had a touch of Bob Thompson about them, blocky flat shapes cohering into apparitions.
—Helen Molesworth, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
The Times had a slightly bigger building, with a bigger sign, neon red, in the logo’s blocky gothic font.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2025
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Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2025
About a year after the Meta pivot, an image of Zuck’s own blocky, dead-eyed visage from inside the metaverse went viral because of how shockingly mid the graphics still were after a year of work and billions of dollars to build it.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 4 Dec. 2025
In this show the palette shifted from the artist’s familiar Pepto-Bismol pink to slightly more somber shades, of saffron, eggplant, and rose; the colors had a touch of Bob Thompson about them, blocky flat shapes cohering into apparitions.
—Helen Molesworth, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
The Times had a slightly bigger building, with a bigger sign, neon red, in the logo’s blocky gothic font.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2025
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“Blocky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blocky. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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