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cubical

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Recent Examples of cubical Even the workpiece itself was cubical. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025 The were only a few objects and all had a single, cubical shape. — Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2025 The Hardness of Hard Problems For decades, the cubical foam problem went relatively unexplored in higher dimensions. — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023 Stripping down to a black business-casual bikini with silver accents and necktie while her long blonde ponytail whipped around behind her, the MC turned the digital cubical farm behind her into a sweaty nightclub. — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019 Once that happens, terahertz communications can significantly complement mmWave in indoor environments such as a hallway, meeting rooms, cubical offices, laboratories, and open areas. — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2019 Trying to rope the universe with our own definitions is like trying to put a spherical peg in a cubical hole. — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2010

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Compare that to a Caltech air monitor in Pasadena, which recorded about 650 micrograms per cubic meter during last year’s Eaton fire.

— Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
The seafloor dropped about four meters (13 feet), the plates pulled apart by more than one meter (three feet), and up to 160 million cubic meters of lava—the volume of more than 60 Great Pyramids of Giza—erupted onto the seabed.

— Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 8 July 2026

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Much like disposable cameras, instant cameras, retro digicams, and Yashica’s own blocky digital shooter, the Tank, these limitations are what gives it the washed-out, nostalgic charm that pristine smartphone sensors work so hard to edit out.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 June 2026
The image above shows the current user interface in the center, with the old, blocky style on the left and the airy, line-drawing style on the right.

— Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026

Definition of blocky

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SpaceX shunned the conventional boxy satellite designs pretty much everyone else has used for more than a half-century.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026
Designed by Cossutti & Ganz, the exterior eschews that typically boxy catamaran silhouette in favor of a slightly more curvy profile.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 July 2026

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