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Recent Examples of cuboidThis 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 In three dimensions, meanwhile, exceptions to the cuboid rule were rare enough.—Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020 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
The Animas River in Durango was flowing at 153 cubic feet per second — a fraction of the median of 499 cfs for the day across 113 years of data, and close to the historic low for that date of 137 cfs.
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Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
15 Aug. 2025
In the 2024 flood, which broke records at the time, scientists with the the University of Alaska and the U.S. Geological Survey said river flow jumped to 42,000 cubic feet per second − a 25% increase − about half the flow rate of Niagara Falls.
Once that happens, terahertz communications can significantly complement mmWave in indoor environments such as a hallway, meeting rooms, cubical offices, laboratories, and open areas.
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IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
17 Apr. 2019
The were only a few objects and all had a single, cubical shape.
The computers were blocky, the jeans were baggy, and the US military was sending Marines to Iraq to support weapons inspections.
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Sarah Scoles,
Popular Science,
2 Nov. 2023
According to reports from the Osservatorio Etneo, most of the lava flows have been small and cool enough to become blocky flows not too far from the crater area, but on at least three occasions since December 23, major lava flows have been produced.
This one from The Drop is my go-to, since it’s designed in a soft cotton jersey with a slightly boxy fit.
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Jamie Allison Sanders,
People.com,
9 Aug. 2025
Hoodies are also important, updated in a myriad of ways from uneven hemline, short sleeves and boxy fits to untraditional fabrics like cotton rich stretch poplins, oxfords and warp faced satins.
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