brick wall

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as in stone wall

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Recent Examples of brick wall Some see frogs crawling up its hulking brick wall; others swear a flying saucer is rising from the colorful blobs. — Lila Hempel-Edgers, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026 But on a July 4 contest against the top team in the NL East, Manaea and the Mets appeared to run right into a brick wall. — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026 The hyperscalers run into a brick wall If Micron’s earnings showed who is winning from the AI boom , Apple highlighted who is paying for it. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 27 June 2026 On July 31, 2022, Shirilla, then 17, drove her car into a brick wall at nearly 100 mph. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for brick wall
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brick wall
  1. stone wall
  2. barrier
  3. blockade
  4. stumbling block
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  • Their names—Judge, Hercules Posey, Christopher Sheels, Austin, Richmond, Giles, Moll, Paris, and Joe—are still carved into a stone wall in huge letters.
    — John Garrison Marks, The Atlantic, 25 July 2026
  • Later that year, on his way home after a friend’s funeral, Nonno slipped and fell headfirst into the stone wall of the chiesa madre.
    — Angelica Calabrese, Longreads, 7 July 2026
Definition of stone wall
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  • Like many inland dikes, the barrier in agricultural fields near the small town of Waddinxveen, east of The Hague, is made of peat that needs to be damp to be strong enough to hold back water.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Replacing barriers with highways To understand the new design, imagine a conventional topological photonic chip as a road surrounded by wide safety barriers.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of barrier
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  • Iran has denied any current negotiations with the US, and a military adviser to the supreme leader has threatened American ships taking part in a blockade of Iranian ports.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Against this backdrop, the Houthi announcement of a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia amounted to the most serious escalation of Saudi-Houthi tensions since a tenuous ceasefire largely ended Yemen’s civil war in 2022.
    — Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of blockade
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  • Some believe that amending the bill to include Iran, which has been embroiled in a war with the United States since February, could add a stumbling block to the bill’s path forward to a vote in the House of Representatives.
    — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 31 July 2026
  • The alternative is asking the majority to accept the inconvenience of having gambling cordoned off from daily life in order to avoid putting a stumbling block in front of their neighbors.
    — Jonathan Caulkins, The Conversation, 17 July 2026
Definition of stumbling block

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