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boxlike

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SpaceX shunned the conventional boxy satellite designs pretty much everyone else has used for more than a half-century.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026
Designed by Cossutti & Ganz, the exterior eschews that typically boxy catamaran silhouette in favor of a slightly more curvy profile.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 July 2026

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Much like disposable cameras, instant cameras, retro digicams, and Yashica’s own blocky digital shooter, the Tank, these limitations are what gives it the washed-out, nostalgic charm that pristine smartphone sensors work so hard to edit out.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 June 2026
The image above shows the current user interface in the center, with the old, blocky style on the left and the airy, line-drawing style on the right.

— Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026

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Compare that to a Caltech air monitor in Pasadena, which recorded about 650 micrograms per cubic meter during last year’s Eaton fire.

— Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
The seafloor dropped about four meters (13 feet), the plates pulled apart by more than one meter (three feet), and up to 160 million cubic meters of lava—the volume of more than 60 Great Pyramids of Giza—erupted onto the seabed.

— Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 8 July 2026

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PowerBlock’s blockish design has critics comparing it to reaching into a toaster but the brand has solid loyalty among serious home-gym owners and strength enthusiasts.

— David Hochman, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
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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The hefty hardback, which weighs nearly eight pounds, comprises 222 pages and more than 125 illustrations dedicated to LV’s iconic cuboid creations.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 July 2022
Jones tottered through the wetlands in hip waders, holding high a cuboid plastic container tall enough to enclose the towering tule plants.

— Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Dec. 2021

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