cubicle
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bay, cabin, cell, chamber, compartment, cube
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Designer Charles Edwards puts mill manager Grandmother Buryjovka in a glass cubicle with a picture of Lenin on the wall. — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, "A fairy-tale world premiere and Janácek's brutal but redemptive 'Jenufa' impress at Santa Fe Opera," 6 Aug. 2019 This reconsideration must be taken on as an urgent strategic task by the people occupying executive suites, rather than delegated to bean-counters in cubicles. — The Economist, "SecurityCompanies must get ready for a riskier world," 11 July 2019 My cubicle-mates seem to be able to pop in their earbuds and focus, but I’m easily distracted. — Karina Bland, azcentral, "Here's some good advice for working at home (mostly of which I ignore)," 17 June 2019 Or it could be used to spy on your co-worker in the next cubicle. — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, "Scientists use sound to see around corners," 17 June 2019 Photos: Madeline Marshall/The Wall Street Journal(2) To accommodate that, the Museum Support Center is renovating a 10,000-square-foot office space, ripping out cubicles and furniture. — Daniel Nasaw, WSJ, "Tight at the Museum: A Smithsonian Struggles to Find Space for the World’s Stuff," 7 June 2018 The classrooms were cubicles divided by walls so thin that students in a government class struggled to concentrate while an EMS instructor next door loudly explained how to deliver a baby. — Fox News, "From fire and ash to caps, gowns: Graduation in burned town," 6 June 2019 Shopping for a vacation is part anti-cubicle fantasia...and part personality disorder. — Rebecca Malinsky, WSJ, "The Real Reason You Like Shopping for Vacation," 5 June 2019 One woman alleged that in 2014 Kramer would visit her cubicle almost daily to share tales of conquests with women. — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, "Contra Costa County Assessor Gus Kramer accused of creating hostile workplace, may face removal," 5 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cubicle.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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