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Recent Examples of blocky
Images of bodies, vegetation, and police vehicles flood the frames of Nicolas Gourault’s film with fields of blocky pixellation, as off-screen voices offer testimony about the work of visual data analysis.
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
The computers were blocky, the jeans were baggy, and the US military was sending Marines to Iraq to support weapons inspections.
—Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
Some of the attraction’s figures aren’t as blocky as Lego structures can be.
—Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
Prints of the American flag take over the blocky sneaker, with wavy red and white stripes running down the lateral and medial sides and stars sitting above the foot.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
The computers were blocky, the jeans were baggy, and the US military was sending Marines to Iraq to support weapons inspections.
—Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
Some of the attraction’s figures aren’t as blocky as Lego structures can be.
—Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
Prints of the American flag take over the blocky sneaker, with wavy red and white stripes running down the lateral and medial sides and stars sitting above the foot.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blocky
Adjective
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Those industrial-grade ones are both costlier and bulkier than domestic models.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Quantum gravimeters, devices that sense gravitational fields, are still bulky and power-hungry.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This happens when its dense stellar corpse is close enough to its companion star to allow its gravity to begin stripping away the partner's stellar material.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The resulting configuration provides much denser storage than conventional all flash parallel file systems.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Stylistically, these bulky sculptures are like many in the show, whether large or small — solid, blockish, refined but not delicate.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Aug. 2021
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Bold and blockish, but soft around the edges.—
Peter Hartlaub,
San Francisco Chronicle,
19 Apr. 2021
Adjective
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Unrealized gains are marked-to-market, and a hefty tax bill may follow.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Debit use can also save customers money at independent stores, some of which apply hefty surcharges on credit.—
Michael Waters,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Blocky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blocky. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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