: very large
the judge awarded her a boxcar figure
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Adjective
a boxcar pile of paper
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Julia Preston, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2024
This also was the inspiration behind the boxcar scene in Nickel Boys.
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Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2022
The modernist gem — a pristine example of Neutra’s boxcar style — is a fitting home for Grey.
—Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2022
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Noun
Fanning out across Texas and California, immigration agents deported more than 200,000 Mexicans, crammed into boxcars and herded back over the border, and terrorized hundreds of thousands more into leaving.
—Julia Preston, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2024
This also was the inspiration behind the boxcar scene in Nickel Boys.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
Adjective
As the Great Depression deepened in the early 1930s, an even more cruel twist was coming: White residents of Silvis complained that the Mexicans living in the rail yard didn’t have to pay property taxes on their boxcar homes.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2022
The modernist gem — a pristine example of Neutra’s boxcar style — is a fitting home for Grey.
—Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2022
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“Boxcar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boxcar. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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