brick

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Recent Examples of brick But this time, they — along with the world of Oz — have been transformed into Lego bricks. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025 Last year a couple removed the flooring in their 400-year-old home to uncover the original old brick flooring. Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025 Besides being mugged by one of Iza’s henchmen, a brick was thrown through his window and his car was vandalized. Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025 These latest shifts continue the transformational journey that retailers have undergone moving from brick and mortar stores to online sales, then to mobile sales, and on to social media. Mark Simon, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for brick
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brick
Noun
  • Let the rookie learn on the fly, make mistakes, and grow.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Get your fruit trees off to a strong start by avoiding these common planting mistakes.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For Baltimore, the margin for error is gone.
    Andy Scholes, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The Wolverines then made three consecutive hitting errors, essentially putting the set out of reach.
    Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Potential adversaries interpret political action in zero-sum terms; see malice and evil design in mere blunders and coincidence; trumpet necessity rather than navigate choice; and, in extreme cases, invent pretext or promise profit to make more palatable a dubious cause.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • In the aftermath of the expensive blunder, Schwarzman was quickly pulled aside by an investor.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Brick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brick. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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