cuboid

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Recent Examples of cuboid This place exists in autonomy, in relief, a dry, febrile land of cuboid houses and scrawled horizons. Maya Boyd, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2022 The hefty hardback, which weighs nearly eight pounds, comprises 222 pages and more than 125 illustrations dedicated to LV’s iconic cuboid creations. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 July 2022 On the north side of Independence Square, in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, is the House of Government—a row of cuboid white buildings, each with a checkerboard of identical black windows. Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021 Jones tottered through the wetlands in hip waders, holding high a cuboid plastic container tall enough to enclose the towering tule plants. Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Dec. 2021 Any chip is going to be approximately cuboid-shaped—again, see that Facebook pic—and would have to be small enough to pass through the needle. James Heathers, The Atlantic, 3 June 2021 Yet Pattison’s reporting and prose bring the readers into the excitement of scenes that turn on these details, such as when White and his colleagues realize that all human species, new and old, seem to have a facet in their cuboid foot bone. Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2020 Working with János Török, a specialist in computer simulations, and Ferenc Kun, an expert on fragmentation physics, Domokos found that cuboid averages showed up in rock types like gypsum and limestone as well. Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cuboid
Adjective
  • There will be an additional 290,000 cubic yards of sand in renourishment.
    Luke Harold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2026
  • The frunk has 11 cubic feet of cargo space and there’s an innovative interior pass-through called the Multi-Flex Midgate.
    James Raia, Mercury News, 31 May 2026
Adjective
  • The question remained: How, and more importantly, why, does the Wombat produce cubical droppings?
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Even the workpiece itself was cubical.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Two computer monitors displayed a riot of overlapping windows, including an old, blocky software program called P-COM, which offered thirty-five types of commands.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
  • The biggest transformation occurs in the blocky, brutalist Crucible Theatre, which shifts from staging Shakespeare and Harold Pinter to become the Theatre of Dreams — snooker’s holiest of holy sites, where 32 leading players from across the world compete to be be named the best of the best.
    Andrew Dickson, Bloomberg, 2 May 2026
Adjective
  • The actress wore an oversized chocolate brown suit with a boxy blazer and wide-leg pants from ERL.
    Meg Walters, InStyle, 27 May 2026
  • More specifically, Wellhouse brings in the boxy, pug-nosed Wake micro-van produced by Daihatsu between 2014 and 2022 and also badged as the Toyota Pixis Mega.
    C.C. Weiss May 26, New Atlas, 26 May 2026

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“Cuboid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuboid. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.

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