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Recent Examples of brick wall
Paw prints are visible on a brick wall in Montreal.
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Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Bright hues are cleverly incorporated throughout the living quarters, with a graffiti-like painting covering a brick wall in the otherwise completely white bathroom.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2025
The other side of the lawn, with a brick wall, was a different story.
—Tyler Hayes, PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2025
Take a step forward and smack headfirst into a brick wall, which is how this transfer window has often seemed.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2025
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Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Bright hues are cleverly incorporated throughout the living quarters, with a graffiti-like painting covering a brick wall in the otherwise completely white bathroom.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2025
The other side of the lawn, with a brick wall, was a different story.
—Tyler Hayes, PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2025
Take a step forward and smack headfirst into a brick wall, which is how this transfer window has often seemed.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brick wall
Noun
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Menninger said the stone wall goes around the facade and the empty lot.—
Jason Dill
September 5,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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The entryway features a front porch and red-hued door flanked by a stone wall.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Affordable Care Act in 2010 expanded access to the reviews, but barriers regularly get in the way of the process serving as a true check on insurers.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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Modi was responding to a post by Trump on Truth Social, which said that New Delhi and Washington were continuing negotiations to address the trade barriers between both nations.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Taxes at that level were essentially a blockade on commerce between the world's two largest economies, causing worries about global growth that led to negotiations that ratcheted down the tariffs being levied by both nations.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Sep. 2025
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About 50 hooded people tried to start a blockade in Bordeaux, while in Toulouse, in the southwest, a fire was quickly extinguished but still disrupted train traffic, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau told reporters early on Wednesday.—
Stephane Mahe,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There’s a significant stumbling block to that reunion.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
8 Sep. 2025
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But what seems like a minor infraction many years ago could be a stumbling block.—
Sam Charles,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Brick wall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brick%20wall. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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