bricks

plural of brick

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Recent Examples of bricks The architects used building materials like bricks made of crushed sand and ash residue that have been found to be effective insulators, deflecting heat. Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026 There’s obviously plenty of bricks in the current Wall Street wall of worry for this stock market to climb. Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 The train station hulked behind barbed wire, abandoned for years, both witness to and eight million bricks’ worth of evidence of Detroit's near-collapse. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 July 2026 All windows facing these three streets had been blocked in with adobe bricks. Literary Hub, 28 July 2026 The runner-up last week, Hamlin is favored in the odds and will look to kiss the bricks for the first time. Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 25 July 2026 Criminalist Lauren Wallace testified that Bluestar, a chemical used to detect possible blood, produced strong reactions on the rubber mats covering the garage floor and on the bricks beneath them. Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2026 Visitors explore a Miniland made from LEGO bricks recreating local city landmarks, watch short films in a 4D Cinema with wind, rain and snow effects, ride small attractions and build alongside LEGO Master Model Builders. Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2026 The bricks allow children and fans to build anything from their imagination, according to the release. Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 21 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bricks
Noun
  • Efficiency expands access while increasing the number of settings in which consequential mistakes, surveillance and labor displacement can occur.
    Gerui Wang, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Sellers can edit any mistakes before an auction begins, and those corrections are used to further improve future AI models.
    Joshua Hong, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • By using a mathematical technique to reduce the precision of some data, the researchers brought that figure down to 51 watts without compromising the system’s ability to detect dangerous computational errors.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026
  • According to Bergh, part of the issue is that many state agencies are struggling with staffing pressures and paperwork backlogs, especially amid efforts to prevent errors on food aid applications and avoid new federal penalties.
    Juliana Kim, NPR, 3 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • In 2026, Mattel is doubling down and averting any PR blunders with a Holiday Barbie that, by all accounts, looks genuinely gorgeous.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 29 July 2026
  • Among the blunders of the first round was to turn Iran from a pariah state into a sympathetic one.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026
Noun
  • Modern brick kilns are designed to minimize or eliminate clinkers.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
  • 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 5 Aug. 2026.

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