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he dropped a brick that had his friends helpless with laughter
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Recent Examples of bricks
On Monday evening, a EF-2 tornado from the west swept through four blocks of the Franklin County seat, effectively destroying TruComp’s 76,000-square-foot building, shearing off its front and blasting its east side into mounds of bricks, insulation and twisted metal.
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Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2026
Charlotte is passing out bricks from the original Jerry Richardson Stadium structure to the first 200 fans in attendance, with the stadium undergoing a $70 million renovation.
—Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 13 Apr. 2026
To solarize, lay a piece of clear plastic over the patch and secure it with stones, bricks, or staples.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2026
Two closets in the hallway contained bags stuffed with fentanyl bricks and more than 1,000 glassine envelopes filled with the drug.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2026
Ellsworth-Clark, whose all-time favorite Dewey episode involves a purse full of bricks, rewatched a bit of the show to prepare for the role.
—Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
Other students in the challenge came up with ideas for some of that material, including the creation of bricks that turn out to be fire resistant.
—Alan Gionet, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
Housed within the walls of adobe bricks, stucco, and giant wooden beams, rustic design reigns supreme with an emphasis on natural wood textures and rough tilework.
—Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2026
In this case, we were given a bunch of bricks and asked to balance out the spinner.
—Ian Stokes, Space.com, 5 Apr. 2026
Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2026
Charlotte is passing out bricks from the original Jerry Richardson Stadium structure to the first 200 fans in attendance, with the stadium undergoing a $70 million renovation.
—Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 13 Apr. 2026
To solarize, lay a piece of clear plastic over the patch and secure it with stones, bricks, or staples.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2026
Two closets in the hallway contained bags stuffed with fentanyl bricks and more than 1,000 glassine envelopes filled with the drug.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2026
Ellsworth-Clark, whose all-time favorite Dewey episode involves a purse full of bricks, rewatched a bit of the show to prepare for the role.
—Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
Other students in the challenge came up with ideas for some of that material, including the creation of bricks that turn out to be fire resistant.
—Alan Gionet, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
Housed within the walls of adobe bricks, stucco, and giant wooden beams, rustic design reigns supreme with an emphasis on natural wood textures and rough tilework.
—Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2026
In this case, we were given a bunch of bricks and asked to balance out the spinner.
—Ian Stokes, Space.com, 5 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bricks
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Defensively, Lindor keeps making uncharacteristic mental mistakes, and the Mets don’t seem to have an answer for those either.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Ludvig Aberg swapped out some sloppy mistakes at the Masters with pure iron play at Harbour Town in warm, swirling wind that produced an 8-under 63 for a one-shot lead Thursday in the RBC Heritage.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Arize tests and monitors RAG pipelines as well as the agents and applications built on them—debugging and hunting down errors and hallucinations.—
Erik German,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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Marlins catcher Agustín Ramírez and first baseman Connor Norby made errors, raising Miami's NL-high total to 15 in 15 games.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Several real estate blunders exacerbated the situation.—
Harvey Levine,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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Orioles pitchers made two defensive blunders Saturday, and the absence of an ABS challenge cost Ryan Helsley in the ninth inning of a gutting loss.—
Jacob Calvin Meyer,
Baltimore Sun,
4 Apr. 2026
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But there are no outright clinkers in the bunch, either.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Bricks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bricks. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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