as in mistake
an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy
he dropped a brick that had his friends helpless with laughter
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Recent Examples of brick
Archaeological evidence from sites such as Pope’s Creek Plantation in Virginia, the Washington family home, shows the presence of Dutch ceramics, clay pipes and yellow bricks.
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R. Grant Gilmore Iii,
The Conversation,
30 June 2026
Throughout the wreckage, ordinary people were digging through fragments of brick and concrete with their bare hands, pulling out bodies.
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Armando Ledezma,
New Yorker,
30 June 2026
This may be an automatic process, Rux said, or specific proteins might encourage the microtubule bricks to fill the gaps.
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Jake Buehler,
Quanta Magazine,
29 June 2026
Annie and her husband, Tommaso Cioni, drove the roughly ten minutes to Nancy’s sprawling brick ranch, ringed by cacti, in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood.
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Irin Carmon,
Vulture,
29 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for brick
R. Grant Gilmore Iii,
The Conversation,
30 June 2026
Throughout the wreckage, ordinary people were digging through fragments of brick and concrete with their bare hands, pulling out bodies.
—
Armando Ledezma,
New Yorker,
30 June 2026
This may be an automatic process, Rux said, or specific proteins might encourage the microtubule bricks to fill the gaps.
—
Jake Buehler,
Quanta Magazine,
29 June 2026
Annie and her husband, Tommaso Cioni, drove the roughly ten minutes to Nancy’s sprawling brick ranch, ringed by cacti, in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood.
—
Irin Carmon,
Vulture,
29 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for brick
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brick
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That ended his day after five innings of one-run ball, with just one mistake — a slider that Manny Machado clobbered for a solo homer — against him.
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Will this turn into a tragic mistake Daemon soon regrets?
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With Yerry De los Santos also fumbling a bunt in the eighth, the Yanks tallied a season-high four errors on the night.
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Michael Conforto, Alex Bregman and Ian Happ had RBI hits in the sixth, when the Cubs’ runs were unearned thanks to a pair of errors.
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Colorado's rally offset a pair of baserunning blunders that ended the eighth.
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One Republican senator calling this the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.
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“Brick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brick. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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